Sree Rekha
  • Year of release: 2000 (Central)
  • Pedigree: Top cross hybrid - TMS.63198 (Selfed) x Sree Visakham
  • Yield: 45-48 t ha-1
  • Potential yield: 61 t ha-1
  • Maturity: 8-10 months
  • Suitable growing regions: Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
  • Key traits:
    • Erect branching and sparse flowering variety with brownish white mature stem
    • Light sepia coloured emerging leaf
    • Mature leaves broad and lanceolate with acuminate tip having purple petiole
    • Long and conical tubers with light brown outer skin and cream coloured tuber rind and flesh
    • Tubers with 28-30% starch, 49-60 ppm cyanogen having excellent cooking quality
    • Field tolerant to Cercospora leaf spot
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