The potato is popular because it doesn’t expire as easily as other types of potatoes. Today, the Russet Burbank potato is the most widely cultivated potato in the United States.
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Later, a natural vegetative sport (that is, an aberrant growth that can be reproduced reliably in cultivation) of Burbank potato with russetted skin was selected and named Russet Burbank potato. Burbank sold the rights to the Burbank potato for $150 and used the money to travel to Santa Rosa, California, in 1875. His father died when he was 18 years old, and Burbank used his inheritance to buy a 17-acre (69,000 m²) plot of land near Lunenburg center. The thirteenth of fifteen children, he enjoyed the plants in his mother's large garden.
īorn in Lancaster, Massachusetts, Burbank grew up on a farm and received only a high school education in Lancaster County Academy. Late blight is a disease that spread and destroyed potatoes all across Europe, but caused extreme chaos in Ireland due to the high dependency on potatoes as a crop by the Irish. This particular potato variety was created by Burbank to help "revive the country's leading crop" as it is slightly late blight-resistant. The Russet Burbank potato was in fact invented to help with the devastating situation in Ireland following the Great Famine. This large, brown-skinned, white-fleshed potato has become the world's predominant potato in food processing. A natural genetic variant of the Burbank potato with russet-colored skin later became known as the russet Burbank potato. Wickson), the freestone peach, and the white blackberry. He developed (but did not create) a spineless cactus (useful for cattle-feed) and the plumcot.īurbank's most successful strains and varieties included the Shasta daisy, the fire poppy (note possible confusion with the California wildflower, Papaver californicum, which is also called a fire poppy), the "July Elberta" peach, the "Santa Rosa" plum, the "Flaming Gold" nectarine, the "Wickson" plum (named after the agronomist Edward J. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables.
He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career.
Luther Burbank (Ma– April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science. Burbank birthplace in Lancaster, Massachusetts
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