New Potato Variety Makes A Splash At Texas Field Day
August 12, 2015 
Reveille Russet is a new variety developed by the Texas A&M Potato Breeding and Variety Development Program. Photo credit: Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife Communications
Fields of the new variety Reveille Russet could be seen adjacent to the potato plots featured in the 2015 annual Potato Field Day held recently near Springlake on the Barrett Farm and hosted by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M department of horticultural sciences.
“The major news this year is our new variety called Reveille Russet,” said Creighton Miller, AgriLife research potato breeder in College Station. “We named it that because reveille is the first call to stations and this one is an early variety. Reveille is also the name of the A&M mascot. ”
According to an article on AgriLife Today, the variety is a russet baking potato headed to the fresh market. The attributes that make it stand out are taste and flavor, said Miller.
“In all our taste panels, the ratings were very high,” he said. “It also has wide adaptability, as it has been successfully grown in Idaho, New Mexico, Colorado, Michigan, and here in Texas, so it can be grown across the nation.”
Miller’s program annually plants first-year seedlings in field trials located near Springlake and Dalhart. This year, they planted 79,000 seedlings from 392 families or crosses in the trials between the two locations.
Miller said many of these seedlings come from exchanges with other universities such as North Dakota State, Oregon State, and Colorado State. At the recent field day, 280 selections were displayed side-by-side with vines and dug potatoes
Read the full article on AgriLife Today.
Source: Texas A&M Agrilife
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