Excellency

EXCELLENCY

EXCELLENCY

Potato Variety Information

Variety Name: ExcellencyRights Holder | Breeder: AGRICO RESEARCH BVCountry of Origin: Netherlands NetherlandsYear of of introduction: 2009Parentage: LADY OLYMPIA

Variety Description

Excellency is a fresh market variety with processing capabilities. It has yellow skin and light yellow flesh. Tubers are long oval, rather big and have very shallow eyes. Tuber numbers are moderate.

Excellency has a moderate dry matter content with a floury texture. It has good frying quality, as well as cooking and chipping qualities. Excellency grows on most soils and is of interest to the processing market and packers as it has a clean skin finish.

Quality

  • Tuber Shape: Oval Long
  • Uniform of Shape: Uniform
  • Eye Depth: Shallow
  • Skin Color: Yellow
  • Flesh Color Pale: Yellow
  • Dry matter percent: 21.2

Agronomy

  • Dormancy: Medium
  • Tuber Number: Higher Setting
  • Resistance to Damage: Susceptible
  • Secondary Growth: Not Susceptible
  • Flower Colour: White

Disease Resistance

  • Late Blight (Foliage blight): Some Susceptibility
  • Common Scab: Moderate Resistance
  • Virus PVY: Good Resistance
  • Tuber Blight: Some Susceptibility
  • PCN - Ro1 & Ro4: Resistant
  • Blackleg: Some Susceptibility
  • Virus Yntn: Very Good Resistance
  • Silver Scurf: Very Good Resistance

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