Abstract

MORALES-TEJON, Alfredo L. et al. INIVIT BM-90, new sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) cultivar with high anthocyanin content. cultrop [online]. 2017, vol.38, n.2, pp.80-80. ISSN 0258-5936.

In recent years The Research Institute of Tropical Root and Tuber Crops (INIVIT according its acronyms in Spanish) has obtained a series of cultivars of purple mass with high content of anthocyanin pigments. By way of polycross were obtained the lines that over a period of six years of evaluation and selection, gave rise to the first cuban sweet potato cultivar completely purple mass and desirable agronomic characteristics called INIVIT BM-90. It is very important to have commercial cultivar with antioxidant power because its beneficial to the human health

Keywords : crossing; progeny; pigments.

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