Plants – Commercial herbaceous vegetable or herb plant
Plant Patent
2002-03-05
2004-07-27
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Commercial herbaceous vegetable or herb plant
Plant Patent
active
PP015038
ABSTRACT:
This invention pertains to a new and distinct variety of sweet potato.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Genus and species name: This new and distinct sweetpotato variety,
Ipomoea batatas
(L.) Lam., demonstrates both superior processing qualities and high total-sugar content as compared to other available sweetpotato varieties known to the inventors.
Variety denomination: This new and distinct sweetpotato variety is identified as ‘L96-117’, and is characterized by its dark orange flesh and its elongated roots.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Sweetpotatoes, unlike Irish potatoes (
Solanum tuberosum
), are not tuber propagated plants. A “tuber” is a short, thickened portion of an underground branch. Along a tuber are found “eyes,” each of which comprises a ridge bearing a scale-like leaf (analogous to a branch leaf) having minute meristematic buds in the axial of the leaf. By contrast, sweet potato roots are developmentally and anatomically true roots, lacking meristematic buds, and are not derived from an underground branch. Sweet potatoes do not form tubers.
Cannon James M.
Clark Christopher A.
LaBonte Don R.
Villordon Arthur A.
Wilson Paul W.
Bell Kent
Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultu
Davis Bonnie J.
Porter André J.
Runnels John H.
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