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Additional index words. vegetable breeding, disease resistance, cultivar 'Orleans' sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] was developed by the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station to provide an orange-fleshed, light rose-skinned cultivar similar to 'Beauregard' (Rolston et al., 1987) with superior storage root shape and disease resistance similar to 'Beauregard'. 'Orleans' produces excellent numbers of uniform plants. Days to harvest for 'Orleans' and 'Beauregard' are similar in the Gulf South production region. 'Orleans' in North Carolina appears competitive with other commercial cultivars; however, roots of 'Orleans' are too long in California to warrant production. The roots are elliptical and consistent in shape in varied soil types outside of California. Because it has superior shape, yields are equal to and mostly superior to 'Beauregard' for the U.S. #1 grade (5.1 to 8.9 cm diameter, 7.6 to 22.9 cm long) in Louisiana and other Gulf South states. Initially identified and evaluated as LA 05-111, the cultivar is named after the city of New Orleans. Origin 'Orleans' originated in 2005 as a seedling from an open-pollinated polycross nursery of the previous year. The female lineage is 'NC97A-04' from the North Carolina State University Sweetpotato Breeding Program. The female lineage derived from openpollinated nurseries is NC92-05, NC1528, and 'Regal', originally tested as W-152 (Jones et al., 1985).

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Additional index words. vegetable breeding, disease resistance, cultivar 'Bonita' sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] was developed by the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station to provide a specialty-type white-fleshed, tan-skinned cultivar similar to 'O'Henry' but with southern root-knot nematode and soil rot resistance, superior storage root shape, and a higher dry matter content. 'Bonita' produces excellent numbers of uniform plants (sprouts) early in the production season. Days to harvest for 'Bonita', 'Beauregard' (Rolston et al., 1987), and 'O'Henry' are similar in the Gulf South production region; 'Bonita' in North Carolina is later by 7 days. The roots are elliptical and consistent in shape in varied soil types. Yields are equal to and mostly superior to 'O'Henry' for the U.S. #1 grade (5.1 to 8.9 cm diameter, 7.6 to 22.9 cm long) in Louisiana and other Gulf southern states. 'O'Henry' is a whitefleshed, tan-skinned mutation of 'Beauregard' that was found and became commercially grown in the late 1990s. Initially identified and evaluated as L05-29, the cultivar is named after the town of Bonita, LA, located in a major sweetpotato production region. The name is also a reflection of its consistent and attractive root shape.

Additional index words. cultivar, disease resistance, vegetable breeding 'Burgundy' sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] was developed by the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station to provide an orange fleshed, red-skinned cultivar with superior storage root shape, high sucrose content, disease resistance, and southern root knot nematode resistance. 'Burgundy' produces excellent numbers of uniform plants in the plant production beds. 'Burgundy' can be harvested up to 10 d earlier than the Beauregard cultivar (Rolston et al., 1987) in the California production region. The two cultivars are similar in harvest days in the Gulf South production region. The roots are elliptical and consistent in shape in varied soil types. It has a superior shape and yields are similar to the red-skinned Diane cultivar for the U.S. #1 grade (5.1 to 8.9 cm diameter, 7.6 to 22.9 cm long) in California. 'Diane' is the current dominant red-skinned cultivar in California, and it has a propensity to produce longer roots in the sandy soils typical for the production area; 'Burgundy' does not.Initially identified and evaluated as 'LA04-175', the cultivar is named after the deep burgundy-maroon color of its skin. Origin 'Burgundy' originated in 2004 as a seedling from an open-pollinated polycross nursery consisting of 15 lines from the previous year under the line designation 'LA04-175'. The female lineage is 'NC96-61' from the North Carolina State University Sweetpotato Breeding Program. The male parent is unknown.