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- Year of release: 1977(Central)
- Pedigree: Hybrid [Acc.No.1501 x S-2312 (exotic)]
- Yield: 35-38 t ha-1
- Potential yield: 45 t ha-1
- Maturity: 10 months
- Suitable growing regions: Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and North Eastern Region
Key traits:
- Tall, erect branching and flowering variety with dark sepia coloured mature stem
- Light brown emerging leaf
- Mature leaf broad with dark green petiole
- Tubers fusiform in shape and compact in arrangement with brown tuber skin
- Cream tuber rind and light yellow tuber flesh
- Tubers with 25-27% starch, 466 IU/100g carotene, 35-40 ppm cyanogen having good cooking quality
- Field tolerant to Cercospora leaf spot
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