TESSA

Tessa is a childstock farm potato variety with very dry texture after cooking, taste is mild but nice. The tubers are bigger and more oblong with yellow flesh. The skin of the colour is white and skin is bright and smooth.

Characteristics
 

• Leaf development: Medium
• Eye depth: Shallow
• Size of tubers: Large
• Yield: Very high
• Washable: Yes
• Irrigation necessary: No
• Use: French fries, Fresh market
• Flesh colour: Light yellow
• Tuber shape: Oval
• Skin colour: Yellow
• Protected varieties: Yes
• Dry matter content: Medium
• Cooking type: Rather floury cooking B/C

Resistances
 

• Resistance to PLRV (Potato leafroll virus): Very resistant
• Resistance to virus X: N/A
• Resistance to virus Yn: Very resistant
• Resistance to Late Blight (Leaves): Medium resistant
• Resistance to Late Blight (tubers): Medium resistant
• Resistance to internal tuber defects: Medium resistant
• Resistance to common scab: Slightly susceptible
• Resistance to virus A: N/A
• Nematode resistancy: Ro1 Ro4
• Resistance to wart disease: N/A