Scientific and Practical Centre for Potato, Fruit and Vegetable Growing offers consumers the Rubin potato variety under a manufacturing agreement or a license agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

Ripeness: medium late.
Productivity: up to 64.0 t/ha.
Starch content: up to 17.2%.
Consumer qualities: good taste, culinary type VS; Suitable for the production of crispy potatoes, dry mashed potatoes, side potatoes, vacuum sealing for three months after harvesting.
Disease resistance: resistant to potato nematode (Ro1), a common cancer pathotype (1); high resistance to late blight on leaves, scab, viruses Y-, L-, relatively high
resistance to rhizoctonia, fusarium dry rot, viruses X-, S-; average resistance to late blight on tubers, blackleg on stems and tubers, silver scab, Alternaria, early watery rot, viruses M-, A-.
Morphological characteristics: tubers are oval; the peel is red with an intense purple tint, smooth; eyes small; the flesh is yellow; the flowers are red-violet.

More details in the Catalog of varieties on the Centre’s website (in Russian).

Features of the variety:
- responds well to intensive growing conditions;
- resistant to mechanical damage;
- keeping quality is good.

The variety is undergoing state variety testing.

Scientific and Practical Centre for Potato, Fruit and Vegetable Growing is a dynamically developing state scientific selection and seed-growing enterprise in the field of potato growing.

At present, the Scientific and Practical Centre for Potato, Fruit and Vegetable Growing is one of the leading agrarian scientific institutions in Belarus. The scientific work of the Center is complex. The co-executors of the topic are the Institute of Plant Protection, the Grodno Zonal Institute of Plant Growing, regional agricultural experimental stations, the Institute of Genetics and Cytology, the Institute of Biophysics and Cell Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Scientific and Practical Center for Food of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the BSAA and a number of other institutions, which allows deepening theoretical orientation of research, depth of study of experimental material, reliability of conclusions and recommendations for the conditions of various regions of the Republic of Belarus. International cooperation covers many countries, including Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Germany, China, etc.

Main directions of scientific activity:
1. Creation of fundamentally new varieties and hybrids of potatoes with a yield of 50.0-80.0 t/ha, fruits - 25.0-30.0 t/ha, berries - 10.0-12.0 t/ha and vegetable crops – 40.0–100.0 t/ha.
2. Development of targeted environmentally friendly resource-saving technologies for the production of potatoes, fruit and vegetable crops.
3. Ensuring variety change and variety renewal due to the accelerated production of original seed and planting material.
4. Scientific support of the potato and fruit and vegetable growing industries to increase their economic efficiency, competitiveness and fully meet the needs of the Republic of Belarus with high-quality potato, fruit and vegetable products.

Consumers are interested in purchasing the Rubin potato variety under a manufacturing agreement or a license agreement.

Partners are interested in purchasing the Rubin potato variety under a distribution services agreement.