ELGAR am

Medium-early to medium-late maturing potato variety, with attractive, smooth skin

Crossbreeding:
Y66-13-636 x Ve 71105

Maturing time:
Medium-early to medium-late export potato.
High number of tubers per plant.

Yield:
High yield of medium-large, regular sized tubers.

Use:
Tasty consumption potato (boiling type AB). Pure colour.
No discolouring after processing. Suitable for cultivation on all soil types.
Suitable for mechanical washing due to very smooth skin.

Tuber:

• oval to long-oval, regular shape, shallow
• pale yellow skin
• yellow to pale yellow flesh (almost white)
• average dry-matter content
• good storage capacity
• average germinative capacity
• at harvesting tubers are separate to the leaves

Leaves:
Average growth. Leaves give good coverage with a normal number of stems.

Resistance: (expected)
Resistant to potato cyst nematode AM.A and D. and wart disease.
Good resistance to all viral diseases. Is fairly resistant to:
scurf , bacterial ring rot, brown-colouring, pseudomonas, drought-stress, deformed tubers, damage caused during harvesting. The phytophthora resistance in the leaves is average, and low in the tuber.

Cultivation:
In line with other medium-late varieties.

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