Agria
HIGHLY POPULAR, MULTI-PURPOSE POTATO WITH EXCELLENT TASTE, VERY SUITABLE FOR PRE-PACKING AND PROCESSING INTO FRENCH FRIES AND CRISPS.
- Parentage
- Quarta x Semlo
- Breeder
- Kartoffelzucht Böhm, Germany
- Breeder's Representative
- Agrico, Netherlands
- Maturity
- Early main to main crop
- Yield
- Very high
- Tubers
- Large to very large tubers
Long oval shape
Yellow skinned with yellow flesh
Shallow eyes
- Eating Quality
- Excellent taste, very suitable for pre-packing and processing into French fries and crisps. Highly suited to roasting and baking but is popular across a wide range of uses. Processing quality is excellent even after long term storage.
- Virus Diseases
- High resistance to virus Y and A, immune to virus X, moderate resistance to leafroll virus.
- Other Diseases
- Moderate susceptibility to leaf blight, good resistance to tuber blight.
Average resistance to common scab, susceptible to powdery scab.
- PCN
- Resistant to potato cyst nematodes, pathotypes Ro 1+4.