Plants – Commercial herbaceous vegetable or herb plant
Plant Patent
2002-05-29
2004-11-30
Bell, Kent (Department: 1661)
Plants
Commercial herbaceous vegetable or herb plant
Plant Patent
active
PP015380
ABSTRACT:
This invention pertains to a new and distinct variety of sweetpotato.
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, sweetpotato roots are developmentally and anatomically true roots, lacking meristematic buds, and are not derived from an underground branch. Sweetpotatoes do not form tubers.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Genus and species name
This new and distinct sweetpotato variety,
Ipomoea batatas
(L.) Lam., which demonstrates superior southern root-knot nematode and soil-rot resistance, and high yield characteristics as compared to other available sweetpotato varieties known to the inventors.
Variety denomination
This new and distinct sweetpotato variety is identified as ‘Bienville’, and is characterized by its dark orange flesh and elliptical roots.
Cannon James M.
Clark Christopher A.
Hammond Abner H.
LaBonte Don R.
Story Rick N.
Bell Kent
Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultu
Davis Bonnie J.
Porter André J.
Runnels John H.
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