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- Year of release: 2004 (Central)
- Pedigree: Clonal selection from germplasm
- Yield: 30 t ha-1
- Potential yield: 46 t ha-1
- Maturity: 9-10 months
- Suitable growing regions: Kerala, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh
Key traits:
- Climber twining to right, male plant with green vine
- Purplish emerging leaf
- Narrow cordate leaves, petiole with purple base & tip and green middle portion
- Medium long, oval tuber with greyish black skin, with pink cortex and white flesh colour
- Tubers with medium starch (21.4 %) and protein (2.5 %) content
- Excellent cooking quality
- Field tolerant to anthracnose disease caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
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