Scientific and Practical Centre for Potato, Fruit and Vegetable Growing potato variety Manifest under a manufacturing agreement and/or a non-exclusive license agreement for the right to use plant varieties under patents and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

Scope - Agriculture of the Republic of Belarus, Russian Federation.

Potato variety Manifest is among the ten most popular varieties in the republic.

Ripening time: mid-early.
Yield: up to 73.7 t/ha.
Starch content: up to 15.1%.
Consumer qualities: good taste, culinary type AB; suitable for the production of French fries, side dish potatoes, vacuuming.
Disease resistance: resistant to potato nematode (Ro1), common cancer pathotype (1); high resistance to black leg, viral diseases; average resistance to late blight on leaves and tubers, rhizoctonia, common scab.
Morphological features: tubers from oval to elongated-oval; skin is red, smooth; eyes are small; flesh is light yellow; flowers are red-violet.

Characteristics of the variety:
- suitable for growing on light and medium soils;
- responds well to intensive growing conditions;
- highly resistant to mechanical damage.

GENETIC PASSPORT OF THE VARIETY:
A₁₅₈, B_113,122,138, C_169,203, D_208,224,, I_145,172, F_76,78,82, G_108,112, H_169,172, K_143,159.

More details in the Catalogue of varieties pp. 28-29 on the website of the Center. (in Russian)

The information is posted in the publication "Album of promising developments of the organizations of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for the real sector of the economy" - Minsk: Belaruskaya Navuka, 2023, p. 492. (in Russian)

Belarusian potato varieties are competitive. They meet world standards.

Growing potato varieties allows you to get a profit of 700-1000 rubles/ha.

Environmentally safe, does not exceed permissible levels for the accumulation of nitrates and radionuclides.

PATENT of the Republic of Belarus No. 433 dated October 28, 2014. (un Russian)

Selection achievement Manifesto: Pat. 8071 Ross. Federation / L. N. Vologdina, Yu. V. Gunko, I. I. Kolyadko, V. L. Makhanko; date of publication: 03.12.2015.(un Russian)

State register of varieties, 2014, Republic of Belarus

State register of selection achievements approved for use, 2014, Russian Federation. (in Russian)

The Republican Unitary Enterprise "Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Potato, Fruit and Vegetable Growing" is a dynamically developing state scientific selection and seed-growing enterprise and is the leading organization in the Republic of Belarus in the field of potato and fruit and vegetable growing.

The scientific work of the Center is comprehensive. 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 of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Food, the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy and a number of other institutions, which allows us to deepen the theoretical focus of the research, the depth of elaboration of the experimental material, the 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 areas of scientific activity:
1. Creation of fundamentally new varieties and hybrids of potatoes with a yield of 50.0-80.0 t/ha, fruit crops - 25.0-30.0 t/ha, berry crops - 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 through accelerated production of original seed and planting material.
4. Scientific support for the potato and fruit and vegetable growing industries to improve their economic efficiency, competitiveness and fully meet the needs of the Republic of Belarus in high-quality potato, fruit and vegetable products.

Consumers interested in purchasing the Manifest potato variety under a manufacturing agreement and/or a non-exclusive license agreement for the right to use plant varieties under patents.

Partners interested in developing the Manifest potato variety under a distribution services agreement.