Butte 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 ...
cultivar that was released in 1977.
According to Charlie Nardozzi:
The cultivar is resistant to the lesion-causing
nematode species ''
Pratylenchus neglectus'' and ''
Pratylenchus penetrans'', but is susceptible to wilt disease caused by the pathogenic fungus ''
Verticillium dahliae
''Verticillium dahliae'' is a fungal plant pathogen. It causes verticillium wilt in many plant species, causing leaves to curl and discolor. It may cause death in some plants. Over 400 plant species are affected by ''Verticillium'' complex.
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''.
Bibliography
*Charlie Nardozzi. ''Vegetable Gardening for Dummies''. John Wiley, 2009.
References
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Potato cultivars