The Sahel potato is a medium-late maturing variety with yellowskin and pale yellow flesh. It’s high-yielding, especially in arid regions, with good resistance to common scab and drought. Sahel is versatile, ideal for boiling, frying, and baking, and offers a mild, slightly nutty flavor.
Plant and Tuber Characteristics
- Foliage maturity: medium early
- Emergence: fairly fast
- Plant vigour: fairly high
- Skin colour: yellow
- Flesh colour: pale yellow
- Tuber shape: round to short oval
- Shape uniformity: good
- Eye depth: fairly shallow
- Tuber size: large
- Tuber set: moderate
Resistances
- Resistance to foliage late blight: low
- Resistance to tuber late blight: fairly high
- Resistance to pitted common scab: fairly low
- Resistance to pvy: fairly low
- Resistance to pvyntn: moderate
- Resistance to pcn g.Rostochiensis (ro1-4): null
- Resistance to pcn g.Pallida (pa2-3): null
- Resistance to wart pathovar 1: full
Quality
- Yield: fairly high
- Dry matter content: fairly low (17-18%)
- Cooking type: B
- Frying colour at harvest: poor
- Storage ability: fairly high
