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Sweet potato is a health vegetable rich in antioxidants and other nutrients useful in maintaining a healthy body.
According new researches conducted by the Rural Development Administration (RDA) of South Korea sweet potato contains antioxidants such as chlorogenic acid, isochlorogenic.
Antioxidants, known as the modern-day anti-aging nutrients, are phytochemicals or substances (mostly present in fruits and vegetables), which neutralize or counterbalance the free radicals that are generated by the body during normal metabolism.
Free radicals are the most vicious and toxic by-products of metabolism. When not neutralized, they can travel through the body cells, disrupting the structures of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and cause cell damages.
These damages are believed to contribute to aging and degenerative diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, cataract, and the like.
Sweet potato antioxidants are higher in the leaves than in the tops, but higher in the tops than in the roots and petioles.
Also, all parts of sweet potato, especially the leaves and tops, contain protein, lipids, carbohydrates, calcium, iron, phosphorus, and vitamin A and C.
These nutrients are favorably comparable with those of other vegetable nutrients when they are boiled or used in their dry form than when they are consumed raw.
One medium size sweet potato contains almost twice the recommended daily allowance of vitamin A, 42 percent of the recommendation for vitamin C, four times the RDA for beta carotene, and, when eaten with the skin, sweet potatoes have more fiber than oatmeal. All these benefits with only about 130 to 160 calories!

Atlantic is variety with high crop of potatoes. Yield has good grade of large tubers. It also is good resistance to second growth.

Potatoes Atlantic variety has very good storage quality, needs through-the-pile ventilation.
Growing potatoes for seed production, plants should be stand 15 to 20 cm apart. When growing for processing plant seed 30 to 40 cm apart. Reduced fertilization decreases the difficulty in top-killing.

The foliage is very sensitive to applications of the herbicide metribuzin (Lexone®, Sencor®) so this herbicide must be applied well before emergence.

Atlantic potatoes variety has mid-season maturity.
Plants are medium sized, spreading; nodes not swollen; wings wavy.
Leaves are medium green, moderately and stiffly pubescent, overlapping. Spreading nodes not swelled wings wavy.

Tubers are long; smooth to lightly netted buff skin; medium deep eyes, evenly distributed; white flesh.

Reaction Atlantic potato variety to diseases

Atlantic potato variety is moderately resistant early blight, fusarium dry rot (F. coeruleum and F. sambucinum), phoma rot, rhizoctonia. It is also is susceptible to common scab, late blight, leaf roll, verticillium wilt and PVY.

Atlantic potato tubers are susceptible to internal heat necrosis, especially in sandy soils. Hollow heart in the larger tubers can be serious in some growing areas. Moderate fertilization, close spacing and proper timing of overhead irrigation will prevent the production of oversized tubers that might have hollow heart. Atlantic is the standard variety for chipping from the field or from very short-term storage.

The Adora potato was originally bred by A.D. Mulder in the Netherlands.

It is mid-season type of potatoes.

Tubers are long; smooth to lightly netted buff skin; medium deep eyes, evenly distributed; white flesh.

The Adora potatoes are excellent for boiling, baking, and french frying but unsuitable for chipping , have good potential for count carton trade and all season processing.
Adora has a thin skin and shallow eyes which makes it easy to peel. These potatoes present bright yellow flesh for a stunning plate presentation

Adora potato variety produces high yield with good grade of large tubers. It also has good resistance to second growth.

Adora potatoes possess good storage quality, needs through-the-pile ventilation.

If you want to get seed then plants should be 15 to 20 cm apart and for processing, 30 to 40 cm apart.

Reduced fertilization decreases the difficulty in top-killing.

But foliage is very sensitive to applications of the herbicide metribuzin (Lexone®, Sencor®) so this herbicide must be applied well before emergence.

Reaction to diseases

Adora potatoes have moderately resistant to early blight, fusarium dry rot (F. coeruleum and F. sambucinum), phoma rot, rhizoctonia.

It is susceptible to common scab, late blight, leaf roll, verticillium wilt and PVY.

Everyone agrees that Adora potatoes variety is a great looking and excellent tasting potato that will become a favorite soon after you try it.

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