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General
- Origin & Breeding: bred from the cross (F2218 x F47024) made in 1981 at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Station in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and selected at the Agriculture and Agri-food Canada Research Station in Lethbridge, Alberta. Released in 2008.
- Year registered in Canada: 2008
- Registration number: 6373
- Maturity: early
Botanical Features
- Plants: medium size, erect; thick stems, not pigmented; inconspicuous straight single wings; nodes moderately swollen.
- Leaves: dark green; closed; small; midribs and petioles not pigmented, nodes moderately swollen.
Terminal leaflets: broadly ovate; tip cuspidate; base cordate; weakly wavy margins.
Primary leaflets: four pairs; narrowly ovate; tip acuminate; base cordate.
Secondary leaflets: numerous. - Flowers: moderately numerous, red-violet corolla, weakly pigmented, moderately prominent star; orange-yellow anthers; peduncles not pigmented.
- Tubers: oval; medium to large; flaky, buff-coloured skin, white at base of eyes; shallow eyes, intermediate in numbers, evenly distributed; non prominent eyebrows; light yellow flesh.
- Sprouts: spherical; purple; moderately pubescent; base weakly pigmented; apex not pigmented, closed habit.
Agricultural Features
High yielding variety; uniform tuber size and attractive appearance. High specific gravity.
- Utilization: good for boiling, baking and chipping; moderate sloughing after boiling; trace blackening after cooking.
- Chief Markets: fresh market and chipping.
Reaction to Diseases
Moderately resistant: verticillium wilt.
Moderately susceptible: early blight, common scab.
Susceptible: late blight on foliage and tubers, fusarium dry rot.
References: 1.
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