A New Sweetpotato Cultivar for Food and Processing, “Gogeonmi”

“Gogeonmi” is a new sweetpotato variety developed from Mokpo Experiment Station, National Institute of Crop Science(NICS), RDA in 2002, for the utilization as food and processing. This variety was selected from the cross between Seonmi and MI9002-4 in 1995, seedling and line selections were practiced from 1996 to 1997, and preliminary and advanced yield trials were carried out from 1998 to 1999. The regional yield trials were conducted at six locations from 2000 to 2002. “Gogeonmi” has long cordate shape of leaf, green vine and petiole, purple axillary of vine, elliptic shape of storage root, red skin and light yellow flesh of storage root. The average yield of storage root was 31.2 ton/ha in the regional yield trials, which was 35% higher than that of Yulmi variety. Number of storage roots over 50 gram per plant was 3.6, and the average weight of one storage root was 172 gram. This variety has good adaptability for sweetpotato chip and stick as processing food.