Scientific and Practical Centre for Potato, Fruit and Vegetable Growing offers consumers potato variety Julia 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.

Maturity group: early
Yield: up to 61.5 t/ha.
Starch content: up to 14.5%.
Consumer qualities: good taste, culinary type AB.
Resistance to diseases: resistant to potato nematode (Ro1), common cancer pathotype (1); high resistance to viruses Y-, L-, X-; relatively high resistance to black leg, rhizoctonia, common scab, dry fusarium rot, M-virus, average, resistance to late blight on leaves and tubers, anthracnose, alternaria, S-virus.
Morphological features: tubers are round; skin is yellow, smooth; eyes are small; flesh is yellow; flowers are white.

Features of the variety:
- effectively uses natural soil fertility; early tuber formation and rapid accumulation of crop yield in the first half of the growing season;
- resistant to mechanical damage;
- good shelf life.

More details in the Catalogue of varieties(in Russian) pp. 22-23 on the website of the Center.

The information is posted in the publication "Album of promising developments of organizations of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for the real sector of the economy" - Minsk: Belaruskaya Navuka, 2023, pp. 487-488. (in Russian)

It is characterized by higher economic efficiency in comparison with the standard variety Lileya. Growing the Yulia potato variety allows increasing profit by 453.6 rubles/ha, reducing costs per unit of production and increasing profitability by 28%.

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

A new competitive early variety, resistant to potato nematode and mechanical damage, with increased biological value, good morphological indicators and taste qualities of tubers.

Developer: Republican Unitary Enterprise “Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Potato and Fruit and Vegetable Growing”.

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 Yulia 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 Yulia potato variety under a distribution services agreement.