PURPLE SPLENDOR (NCPUR13-0030)
Varieties
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PURPLE SPLENDOR (NCPUR13-0030) It produces purple-fleshed, smooth-skinned, storage roots that are generally blocky to round elliptic. The skin color is dark purple. It produces roots shorter than ‘Stokes Purple’ for soils and conditions where ‘Stokes Purple’ can be long. The leaves of Purple Splendor are alternate and simple in structure, and cordate in shape with slightly to moderately lobed in shape with 0-3 lobes. The leaves have a smooth texture and matte finish. The shape of the central lobe is semi-elliptic. Stem tip anthocyanin coloration is absent and stem tip pubescence is moderate. Purple Splendor averaged 152% of the total marketable yield (TMY) of ‘Stokes Purple’ and 106% the TMY of ‘Covington’. Purple Splendor is moderately resistant to Fusarium wilt, moderately susceptible to Streptomyces soil rot and resistant to southern root knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita.
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