Abstract

MORALES-RODRIGUEZ, Alfredo et al. INIVIT B-50, new sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) cultivar for cuban agriculture. cultrop [online]. 2017, vol.38, n.2, pp. 81-81. ISSN 1819-4087.

In Cuba it is necessary to continue working in the search for new sweet potato cultivars that are better adapted to climate variations, to obtain the proposed, hybridization method was used through manual crossings and subsequent selections, specially to drought, in different environment conditions (G x A, according its acronyms in Spanish). The INIVIT B-50 cultivar has excellent agronomic characteristics such as: a cycle of harvest between 110-120 days, low affectation by weevil (Cylas formicarius F.) and a potential yield of 58 t ha^-1 of tuberus roots

Keywords : breeding; precocity; yield; climate variations.

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