Potatoes

Instructions to get licensed

To enter into (a) license agreement(s) for one or more potato varieties, please click on the link(s) below for your chosen license(s). Then download and complete the express license form(s).

For each variety that you would like to license, please print the license agreement, sign it and scan it or sign electronically with Adobe Acrobat Sign or Docusign. Email your scanned partially executed license agreement to ctl-contracts@cornell.edu. We will have it counter-signed and will email a PDF of the fully executed license agreement back to you for your records.

Materials

Licensees may obtain disease-free tissue cultured plantlets from our lab at Cornell University. Once you are licensed, please contact Albert Tsui, Senior Plant Varieties Licensing & Business Development Officer, if you need a source of disease-free tissue cultured plantlets.

Chipping Varieties

 

3 small round tubers

‘Lady Liberty’

Late-season chipstock producing smaller round-shaped tubers with netted skin. Excellent chip color from cold storage. Good-yielding ability. Moderate-to-good resistance to common scab. Suitable for the small-sized snack-pack market. Previously tested as NY152.

Non-Exclusive Potato (NY152) ‘Lady Liberty’ Express License

 

 

3 large oblong shaped tubers‘Brodie’

Full season maturity chipstock producing large tubers with oblong shape. Smooth white skin with white flesh. Excellent chip color from cold storage. Excellent yielding ability. Resistant to the golden nematode (Ro1 & Ro2). The resistance to both strains is what makes this variety special. Previously tested as NY140.

Non-Exclusive Potato (NY140) ‘Brodie’ Express License

 

3 small round tubers‘Lamoka’

Late maturity chipstock that produces attractive, round tubers. Specific gravity has averaged 0.004 less than ‘Atlantic’. Excellent chip color from cold storage. Good resistance to common scab. Resistant to the golden nematode (Ro1). Previously tested as NY-139.

Non-Exclusive Potato (NY139) ‘Lamoka’ Express License

 

 

round tuber with scurfy skin‘Marcy’

Late maturity chipstock. Large vines with white flowers. Tubers have scurfy skin with attractive round shape. Outstanding yield of large tubers. Generally free of pickouts due to external defects, small percentage of internal defects. Resistant to golden nematode and scab. Formerly test selection NY112.

Non-Exclusive Potato (NY112) ‘Marcy’ Express License

 

three large attractive tubers‘Waneta’

Late maturity chipstock. Large tubers with attractive shape and moderately textured skin. In Cornell trials, yield has been comparable to ‘Atlantic’, while gravity has averaged 0.01 less than ‘Atlantic’. Few pickouts, but large tubers have shown 5 to 10% hollow heart. Very good chip color from 44 degree storage. Dormancy is six weeks longer than ‘Atlantic’. Less susceptible to blackspot than ‘Snowden’. Moderately resistant to common scab. Resistant to the golden nematode (Ro1). Previously tested as NY138.

Non-Exclusive Potato (NY138) ‘Waneta’ Express License

 

Bliss potato‘Bliss’

Mid-late season chipstock with exceptionally light chip color out of cold storage and very few internal defects.  Specific gravity has averaged 0.004 less than Atlantic. Resistant to race Ro1 of the golden nematode and moderately resistant to common scab.  Previously tested as NY163.

Non-Exclusive Potato (NY163) ‘Bliss’ Express License

 

 

Table-stock Varieties

 

3 large oblong shaped tubers‘Brodie’

Full season maturity chipstock producing large tubers with oblong shape. Smooth white skin with white flesh. Excellent chip color from cold storage. Excellent yielding ability. Resistant to the golden nematode (Ro1 & Ro2). The resistance to both strains is what makes this variety special. Previously tested as NY140.

Non-Exclusive Potato (NY140) ‘Brodie’ Express License

 

large oval tubers with smooth skin‘Algonquin’

Early to mid-season maturity white table-stock that features attractive large and oval tubers with a smoother skin than ‘Superior’. Good resistance to common scab. Resistant to race Ro1 of the golden nematode. Previously tested as NY141.

Non-Exclusive Potato (NY141) ‘Algonquin’ Express License

 

 

small round tubers displayed in a circle‘Upstate Abundance’

Early season maturity white table-stock that produces many small round tubers with smooth skin. Resistant to race Ro1 of the golden nematode. Some resistance to common scab and late blight. Previously tested as NY150.

Non-Exclusive Potato (NY150) ‘Upstate Abundance’ Express License

 

Licensing Contact

Albert Tsui
Senior Business Development & Licensing Officer
ayt28@cornell.edu