ANBAR JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

Abstract

An experiment was conducted in vegetable crops farm of plant production department in Technical Agricultural College /Mosul in Rashidiyah during spring season 2012 to compare the behavior of six varieties of potato ( Alaska –Santa – Niktard – Universa – Kourado and Safana ) .The experiment conducted in simple experiment in RBCD with three replicates. The results indicated the superior of Niktard and Safana in vegetative growth traits (plant height – number of stem per plant - fresh and dry weight per plant ) which give (90.95 and 99.07 cm. -5.56 and 3.46 stem – 454.3 and 541.2 gr. – 80.93 and 104.11 gr.) for the traits and two varieties respectively , and also we found a superior of Niktard and Universa varieties in leaf area ( 4579 – 4138 cm. square ) . The varieties Niktard and Universa superior in (tuber weight, plant yield and total and marketable yield ) which give (50.52 and 44.62 gr. – 514.90 and 468.53 gr./plant- 5149 and 4685 Kg./ D.- 4130 and 3543 Kg./D. ) for the traits and two varieties respectively