Adirondack Red is a
potato
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...
variety with red flesh and skin, bred by
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...
potato breeders Robert Plaisted, Ken Paddock and Walter De Jong, and released in 2004.
The Adirondack varieties are unusual because both the skin and the flesh are colored and have high levels of
anti-oxidants. They are described as "Early- to mid-season, medium- to high-yielding variety. Dark green decumbent to spreading vines bear oblong to long, slightly flattened, purplish-red-skinned tubers with shallow eyes and pink to red flesh."
Adirondack Red was found to be susceptible to
silver scurf
''Silver scurf'' is a plant disease that is caused by the plant pathogen ''Helminthosporium solani.'' Silver scurf is a blemish disease, meaning the effect it has on tubers is mostly cosmetic and affects "fresh market, processing and seed tuber ...
disease, as well as the golden cyst nematode. It was also found to have moderate resistance to common scab.
See also
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Adirondack Blue potato
References
External links
Harrison, Christy, "Heirlooms-to-Be", ''Gourmet Magazine'', 2/21/2008*
ttp://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=748755, "Adirondack Reds are not experimental", ''Times Union' (Albany, NY)'', 12/10/2008
Crops originating from the Americas
Potato cultivars
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