‘'Morningpurple’' is a new sweetpotato variety developed by Mokpo Experiment Station, National Institute of Crop Science (NICS), RDA in 2007, for flowering. This variety was selected from the cross between Sinchunmi and Hi-dry in 2004, seedling and line selections were practiced from 2005 to 2006. ‘'Morningpurple’' has morning glory type flowers with purple color. It has triangular leaf, green with purple vine and petiole, elliptic storage root, red skin and yellow flesh color of storage root. The average yield of storage root was 15.0 ton/ha. Number of storage roots over 50 gram per plant was 2.6, and the average weight of storage root was 143 gram.

• 이준설(작물과학원 목포시험장) | Joon-Seol Lee
• 정광호(작물과학원 목포시험장) | Kwang-Ho Jeong
• 김학신(호남농업연구소) | Hag-Sin Kim
• 안영섭(인삼약초연구소) | Young-sup Ahn
• 정미남(농촌진흥청) | Mi-Nam Chung
• 방진기(작물과학원 목포시험장) | Jin-Ki Bang