OTTAWA

Ottawa is an medium early french fry variety with large sized grading and highly suited to long term storage. The skin of the tubers is netted and yellow,the flesh is cream.

Characteristics
 

• Maturity: medium early
• Eye depth: shallow
• Number of tubers: medium
• Processing quality: good suitability for producing French fries with a good length index; processing at storage temperature 7 °C
• Yield: high; large sized tuber lots
• Youth development: hesitant
• Dormancy: very dormant, suitable for long-term storage
• Eating Quality: Excellent fry quality fresh and from long term storage
• Virus Diseases: Very resistant to PVY.
• Other Diseases: Strong resistance to common scab, Medium to high resistance to late blight, High resistance to powdery scab
• PCN: Resistant to potato cyst nematodes Ro 1 & Ro