DONALD

Donald is a high yield potato variety with oval, fairly shallow-eyed tubers in shapes and early ripening. The skin color of this variety is in light yellow- yellow and flesh color having light yellow. Mostly available as smashed potatoes, crips and chip market and in fresh market.

Morphology
 

• Cooking type: BC - Mealy
• Maturity: Medium early
• Yield mature: Good
• Tuber size: Medium
• Tuber shape: Oval
• Number of tubers: 12-14
• Flesh after cooking: Yellow
• Skin colour: Yellow

Tolerances
 

• Dormancy period: Medium
• Emergence: Fast
• Metribuzin sensitivity: Moderately sensitive
• Foliage development: Strong
• Internal bruising: Quite sensitive
• Little Potato disorder: Not sensitive
• Dry matter content: 24,7
• UWW: 462 

Resistances
 

• Spraing:Resistant 
• Foliage Blight: Susceptible
• Tuber Blight: Susceptible
• Common scab: Susceptible
• Powdery scab: Very susceptible
• PVYn: Slightly susceptible
• Yntn tuber tolerance: Very sensitive