Selected potatoes, what are their advantages

Selected potatoes, unlike regular potatoes, has many advantages. After all, this is why breeders are working to improve the qualities of potatoes in order to develop a product that meets the growing demands of consumers.

The advantages of breeding potatoes are their consistently high productivity, resistance to the most dangerous diseases and pests (late blight, bacteriosis, potato nematode, Colorado potato beetle, wireworm), and excellent presentation.

Selected potatoes are produced depending on the direction of their selection. There are such directions as

- selection on the early maturity of the variety, in which the potato bush manages to form a crop in a shortened time, mainly before the massive spread of late blight.
- selection for high starch content, because it is known that the higher the starch content in tubers, the more tasty it is.
- selection on the suitability of potato tubers for industrial processing. Its processed products, when compared with fresh potatoes, are stored significantly longer, due to various food additives they have a higher value (nutritive and biological), do not require special storage conditions, and they are also more transportable.

Popular breeding potatoes: Adretta, Bellarosa, Knight, Vineta, Vitara, Waterfall, Early Zhukovsky, Colette, Lasunak, Lorch, Lugovskaya, Neva, Forget-me-not, Polesskaya pink, Sineglazka, Dawn of Kiev, Slava.

Potato varieties are classified into super-early, early, mid-early, mid-season,
mid-late.