PRINCE

PRINCE

Potato Variety Information

Variety Name: PrinceRights Holder | Breeder: Year of of introduction:

Variety Description

Prince is a white-fleshed storage variety, with an excellent yield, suitable for making French fries.

  • Very low shelf sweetening 
  • Excellent frying quality 
  • Good storage suitability

Plant and tuber characteristics

  • Maturity: Late / 5 
  • Germ Color: red purple / RV 
  • Flower Color: pale mauve / LP 
  • Number of bays: Very High / 4 
  • Foliage - initial development: Rather fast / 7 
  • Foliage - final development: good / 8 
  • Foliage - hold: Somewhat firm / 7.5 
  • Foliage - ease of purification: easier / 7 
  • Skin Color: yellow / Y 
  • Flesh colour: white / 4.5 
  • Skin finishing: Pretty dull / 5 
  • Tuber shape: long oblong / OL 
  • Regularity of shape: fairly regular / 6.5 
  • Tuberization: Medium / 6
  • Tuber size: Wholesale / 8 
  • Size Homogeneity: Regular / 7 
  • Dormancy: long / 8

Sensitivity and quality

  • Regrowth: Somewhat sensitive / 6.5 
  • Blue Shots: Somewhat sensitive / 6.5 
  • Crevices: Not very sensitive / 7
  • Crop damage: Sensitive / 5 
  • Metribuzin: Somewhat sensitive / 6.5 
  • Metribuzin: Somewhat sensitive / 6.5 
  • Bentazone: - / - 
  • Ethylene: 5% fewer tubers / 4 
  • Underwater weight: 433 
  • Dry matter: 23,3% 
  • Cooking Type: floury / C 
  • Blackening after cooking: Not very sensitive / 7.5 
  • Greying: Somewhat sensitive / 6 
  • Sinterability: Excellent / 8 
  • Dry matter distribution: good / 7 
  • Chipability: good / 7 
  • Glycoalkaloid Level: 7,1 
  • Mint Oil: 15% to 25% more tubers / 7

Resistances

  • Virus - Winding: - / - 
  • Virus - Y: Very sensitive / 4.5 
  • Necrotic Y-virus (tuber): Noticeable Stepping / 8.5 
  • Top mop virus: not very sensitive / 6 
  • Downy mildew of the foliage: Sensitive / 5 
  • Tuber downy mildew: Low Sensitivity / 6.5 
  • Wilt: Not very sensitive / 7 
  • Common scabies: Very sensitive / 4.5 
  • Powder Scab: Not very sensitive / 7 
  • Virus - A: - / -

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