date:May 27, 2016
varieties.
The crosses yielded a rainbow of color in the 2,000-plus seedlings AFBI produced, and they had better yields and disease resistance than the parents. A Canadian potato producer visited AFBI Loughgall and this led to one of the seedlings being registered in Canada as Purple Magic. And, yes, people are buying it and they want more of it. We are now registering the variety in Europe and plan to have it on the market by 2018.
Purple Magic has now reached the finals of INVENT 20