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Details for: PI 566626,
Ipomoea batatas
(L.) Lam. var.
batatas
, 'DW-8'
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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
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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):
Dukes, Philip D., USDA, ARS
Jones, Al, USDA/ARS
Schalk, J. M., USDA, ARS
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
Alternate name
note
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
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Description:
Open pollinated seedling of W-206 polycrossed in 1984 to 19 other parental clones
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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