Details for: PI 566626, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. var. batatas, 'DW-8'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. var. batatas

Cultivar:

'DW-8'

Origin:

Developed – South Carolina, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

01 Mar 1993

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Availability

This is historical information about this accession. It no longer exists and can not be requested.

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. var. batatas

Cultivar:

'DW-8'

Origin:

Developed – South Carolina, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

01 Mar 1993

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Developed

South Carolina, United States

Developer(s):

Donated

01 March 1993.
South Carolina, United States

Donor(s):

USDA, ARS

Accession Names and Identifiers

'DW-8'

Type: Cultivar name

85-DW-8

Type: Other or unclassified name

Narrative

Dwarf characteristics including short stem internodes and dark green, thick leaves consistently yields 80% in marketable roots of cv. Jewel. Roots attractive light red, smooth, fusiform shaped with very little cracking. Stores well. High resistance to root knot, stem rot or wilt. Resistant to internal cork, leaf and sclerotial blight. High resistance to sweetpotato flea beetle. Susceptible to white grub. Will not tolerate water-logged soil

Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. var. batatas

Genus:

Ipomoea

Subgenus:

Eriospermum

Section:

Eriospermum

Subsection:

Batatas

Family:

Convolvulaceae

Tribe:

Ipomoeeae

Nomen number:

316363

Verified:

12/17/1991 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. (22 active accession[s])
Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. var. apiculata (M. Martens & Galeotti) J. A. McDonald & D. F. Austin (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Convolvulus batatas L.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Convolvulus fastigiatus Roxb.
Ipomoea fastigiata (Roxb.) Sweet

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	kuumara	1
English	sweet-potato	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Aymara (Peru)	kkumara	2	Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1991. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello. 6:140-176. Note: = Ipomoea batatas
Aymara (Peru)	tuktuka	2	Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1991. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello. 6:140-176. Note: = Ipomoea batatas
Dutch	zoete aardappel	2
English (United States)	yam	2	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
French	patate douce	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Batate	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Süßkartoffel	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese	batata-doce	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)	batata-da-terra	2
Quichua (Peru)	apichu	2	Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969-. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
Spanish	batata	2	Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969-. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
Spanish	boniato	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	camote	2	Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969-. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
Spanish (Venezuela)	papa dulce	2	Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1991. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello. 6:140-176. Note: = Ipomoea batatas
Swedish	batat	2
Transcribed Korean	goguma	2

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
DISEASE	Pox or Soil Rot	Resistance to Pox or Soil Rot (Streptomyces ipomoea (Person & W.J. Martin) Waksm & Henrici).	7 - Susceptible		SWEETPOTATO.DISEASE.89.CLARK		Not Available