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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 ...

cultivar that was released in 1977. According to Charlie Nardozzi: The cultivar is resistant to the lesion-causing

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species '' Pratylenchus neglectus'' and '' Pratylenchus penetrans'', but is susceptible to wilt disease caused by the pathogenic fungus '' Verticillium dahliae''.

Bibliography

*Charlie Nardozzi. ''Vegetable Gardening for Dummies''. John Wiley, 2009.

References

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