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- Year of release: 1996
- Pedigree:Triploid from the cross[OP-4 (diploid) x H-2304 (tetraploid)]
- Yield: 35-40 t ha-1
- Potential yield: 60 t ha-1
- Maturity: Early maturing, 10 months
- Suitable growing regions: Industrial areas of Kerala and Tamil Nadu
Key traits:
- Tall, erect branching variety with stout stem and shy flowering nature with greyish mature stem
- Light purple emerging leaf; mature leaves thick and broad with acuminate tip having light purple petiole
- Tubers conical with light brown outer skin, cream rind and white tuber flesh
- Tubers with 38- 41% starch, 40-55 ppm cyanogen having good cooking quality
- Field tolerant to Cercospora leaf spot, spider mite and scale insect. Drought tolerant variety
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