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- 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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