NorKing Russet, A New Potato Variety
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1985
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North Dakota State University
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This article gives background into the breeding history that lead to the potato variety named Nor King Russet. It resulted from a cross between Nooksack and ND9567-2Russ. Nooksack is a russet variety grown for processing (french fry) in the northwestern states and ND9567-2Russ resulted from a cross between two number selections that have Norchip and B5141-6 in their pedigrees.