A New Sweetpotato Variety for Food and Starch, “Healthymi”

Healthymi is a new sweetpotato variety developed from Mokpo Experiment Station, National Institute of Crop Science(NICS), RDA in 2003, which was for the utilization as food and starch. This variety was selected from the cross between Seonmi and MI9001-12 in 1995, seedling and line selections were practiced from 1996 to 1997, and preliminary and advanced yield trials were carried out from 1998 to 2000. The regional yield trials were conducted at six locations from 2001 to 2003. Healthymi has long cordate shape of leaf, purple vine and petiole, elliptic shape of storage root, dark red skin and light yellow flesh of storage root. The average yield of storage root was 25.5 ton/ha in the regional yield trials, which was 12% higher than that of Yulmi variety. Number of storage roots over 50 gram per plant was 3.5, and the average weight of one storage root was 151 gram. This variety has the high resistance to Fusarium wilt.