The Atlantic potato is a mid-season

potato The potato () is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground stem tubers of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'', a perennial in the nightshade famil ...

variety for

potato chip Potato chips (North American English and Australian English; often just chip) or crisp (British English and Hiberno-English) are thin slices of potato (or a thin deposit of potato paste) that has been deep frying, deep fried, baking, baked, ...

manufacturing. It was developed and released by USDA Agricultural Research Service scientists at Beltsville, Maryland, in 1978. The variety is not under plant variety protection. Webb, R.E.; Wilson, D.R.; Shumaker, J.R.; Graves, B.; Henninger, M.R.; Watts, J.; Frank, J.A.; Murphy, H.J. (1978) "Atlantic: a new potato variety with high solids, good processing quality, and resistance to pests." "American Potato Journal" 55: 141-145 It is a progeny of a cross between 'Wauseon' and '

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'. It is widely grown for chipping directly off the field or with short-term storage. Marketable yields are fairly high.

Botanical features

* Plants are moderately large and have thick, upright stems with slightly swollen nodes. * Leaves are bright medium green and have prominent wings. The primary leaflets are large and asymmetrical with numerous secondary and tertiary leaflets. * Flowers are abundant and are white with a light violet corolla. Pollen is also abundant and is produced on orange anthers. * Tubers (potatoes) are oval to round with moderate to shallow eyes. * Tuber skin is brown and light to heavily netted. * Flesh is white and has a high specific gravity.

Agricultural features

* It has moderate to high yields and is widely adapted, and used for potato chips. * It is highly resistant to race A of golden nematodes, potato virus X, and tuber net necrosis, which is caused by potato leafroll virus. * It is resistant to pinkeye and tolerant to

common scab Common scab is a plant disease of root and tuber crops caused by a small number of ''Streptomyces'' species, specifically ''Streptomyces scabies, S. scabies'', ''Streptomyces acidiscabies, S. acidiscabies'', ''Streptomyces turgidiscabie ...

and ''

Verticillium ''Verticillium'' is a genus of fungi in the division Ascomycota, and are an anamorphic form of the family Plectosphaerellaceae. The genus used to include diverse groups comprising saprobes and parasites of higher plants, insects, nematodes, mol ...

'' wilt. * It is susceptible to

potato virus Y Potato virus Y (PVY) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family ''Potyviridae'', and one of the most important plant viruses affecting potato production. PVY infection of potato plants results in a variety of symptoms depending on the viral str ...

. Hollow heart and heat necrosis can also be a serious problem.

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