Tahuaqueña

Accession Number: CIP374080.1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18730/P5KV8

Breeder Code: P-2

Female Parent: CIP801013 (MEX 72 I-1058)

Male Parent: CIP700764 (Casa Blanca EE-2010)

Breeding Status: Potato Varieties

Year of release: 1988

Country of Release: Peru

Institution(s): INIA-CIP

DESCRIPTION

The variety has a plant with medium vegetative period with a semi-erect growth habit with intense lilac flowers with white acumen in both surfaces; it is highly appreciated in the Altiplano of the Andes for their rounded tubers with white-cream flesh and shallow eyes; there can be process as “chuño” and for table potato and chips (crisps). The variety was released in Peru in 1988.

MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS

Predominant tuber skin color: 1 = White- cream

Tuber skin secondary color: 0 = Absent

Predominant tuber flesh color: 2 = Cream

Tuber flesh secondary color: 0 = Absent

General tuber shape: 2 = Rounded

Unusual tuber shape: 0 = Absent

Tuber shape depth of eyes: 3 = Shallow

STRESS TRAITS

Resistance to Late Blight (LB): 2=MR= Moderately Resistant

Potato Virus Y (PVY): 5=S = Susceptible

Potato Leaf Roll Virus (PLRV): 5=S = Susceptible