'Elkton'

The Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, The North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, and the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station announce the release of the potato variety Elkton, a netted-skinned, white-fleshed variety with resistance to internal heat necrosis suitable for chipping directly from the field in the mid-Atlantic and southern states where internal heat necrosis has been a problem in the variety ‘Atlantic’.

Breeding and seedling tuber production of Elkton were done at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC), Beltsville, MD, by K.G. Haynes.

Elkton was evaluated under the pedigree B1992-106. 

For full release notice, click here.