Mondial is a very-high yielding variety; uniform in grading. Rather good resistance to internal bruising and to drought. Medium to low dry matter content.
Botanical Features
- Plants: medium height, erect; thick stems, weakly pigmented; small straight single wings; moderately swollen nodes.
- Leaves: medium green, open, moderately pubescent on lower surface; midribs not pigmented and moderately pubescent.
- Terminal leaflets: broadly ovate; apex cuspidate; base cordate and asymmetrical; margins slightly wavy.
- Primary leaflets: four to seven pairs, medium ovate, apex cuspidate; base cordate and very asymmetrical.
- Secondary and tertiary leaflets: very numerous.
- Flowers: very few, medium-large, white corolla, star moderately prominent, yellow-orange anthers; buds moderately pigmented, drop readily.
- Tubers: oblong; buff coloured smooth skin; few shallow eyes, predominantly apical; very slightly prominent eyebrows; light yellow flesh.
- Sprouts: ovoid, weak pubescence at the base, medium at the tip; strong blue-violet pigmentation at the base; green tip.
Reaction to Diseases
- Immune: potato wart.
- Resistant: golden nematode (Globodera rostochiensis Ro1), PVA, PVX.
- Good resistance: PVY.
- Moderately resistant: powdery scab.
- Moderately susceptible: common scab.
- Susceptible: late blight, leafroll, blackleg.
