Mizen is a high-yielding creamy yellow skinned
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 ...
that produces long, smooth-skinned tubers with good resistance to foliar and tuber
blight
Blight refers to a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism.
Description
Blight is a rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral org ...
. Flesh is white with medium dry-matter content. Mizen is one of the potato varieties bred in the 1970s at
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The offici ...
Oak Park breeding centre in
County Carlow,
Ireland
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[Irish Seed Savers Spring 2010 Seed List]
References
Potato cultivars
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