A NEW POTATO VARIETY ZARNI FOR THE MIDDLE CIS-URALS CONDITIONS

Due to the aggravated situation in the world, our country has embarked on the path of import substitution, including in the field of agriculture. At present, the creation of domestic competitive varieties of agricultural crops has become an urgent task. The paper presents the material of selection work on the creation of a new variety of potatoes in the conditions of the Middle Cis-Urals. The purpose of the study is to evaluate, according to economically valuable traits, a new potato variety obtained as a result of joint breeding of the Udmurt Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (UdmFRC UB RAS) and Federal Agricultural Research Center of the North-East named after N.V. Rudnitsky (FARC of the North-East named after Rudnitsky). The object of the study is a promising potato variety Zarni (breeding number 10-06-2). Breeding evaluation of the variety in the UdmFRC UB RAS was carried out in the following nurseries: 2007 – nursery of hybrids of the first year; 2008 – nursery of hybrids of the second year; 2009 – kennel of preliminary testing; 2010 – the nursery of the main test; 2011–2013 – control nurseries of the 1st–3rd year of testing; 2014–2016 – area of selective reproduction. As a result of breeding work (2007–2016), a medium-early table potato variety was obtained. Tuber: color – yellow, flesh – yellow, eyes – small, shape – oval-rounded, surface – smooth. The variety forms the number of tubers per bush – 11–16 pieces, the average weight of a tuber is 70–120 g. Average yield for the period 2014–2016 amounted to 28.7 t/ha. Quality indicators: medium starch content, high vitamin C content, good taste, medium digestibility. It has resistance to major diseases and pests (potato cancer, golden potato nematode, late blight, common scab).