Glenwood Red

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General

• Origin & Breeding:bred by Kenneth G. Proudfoot from the cross (N637-6 x N1653-7) made in 1991 at the Agriculture and Agri Food Canada Research Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland.
• Year registered in Canada: 2004
• Registration number: 5794
• Maturity: late

Botanical Features

• Plants: medium size, spreading; stems moderately pigmented; straight single wings; nodes slightly swollen and slightly pigmented.
• Leaves: grey green, closed; midribs and petioles moderately pigmented.
  Terminal leaflets: broadly ovate; tip acuminate; base lobed and slightly asymmetrical; wavy margins.
  Primary leaflets: four pairs; broadly ovate; tip acuminate; base lobed and slightly asymmetrical.
  Secondary and tertiary leaflets: numerous (13-15)
• Flowers: medium flowering; strongly pigmented red-violet corolla; orange anthers; flower buds moderately pigmented; peduncles weakly pigmented.
• Tubers: round; smooth light red to red skin; shallow eyes, few to intermediate in number, predominantly apical; slightly prominent eyebrows; white to cream coloured flesh.
• Sprouts: broad cylindrical; red-violet; base weakly pubescent, strongly pigmented; tip weakly pubescent, green with red-violet undertone, closed habit.

Agricultural Features

High yields of small, uniform tubers; many tubers per plant; short dormancy period; medium specific gravity.

Glenwood Red is well adapted to the growing conditions in Newfoundland for which it was selected.

• Utilization: good for boiling and baking.
• Chief Market: fresh market.

Reaction to Diseases

Highly resistant: potato wart (Synchytrium endobioticum) pathotypes 2 and 8.
Moderately resistant: late blight, common scab, fusarium dry rot.
Susceptible: golden nematode (Globodera rostochiensis)

References:   1.

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