Selection was targeted to tolerance of drastic weather conditions, taste, appearance and high marketable-count tubers.
Key Attributes
- Fresh market russet potato (medium russet skin, white flesh)
- Excellent culinary qualities, high fresh market merit
- Uniform tuber size and shape
- Attractive oblong tubers (larger but not as long as Russet Norkotah)
- High tolerance to heat stress
- High yield of marketable tubers
- Few external defects (fewer culls than Russet Norkotah)
- Low incidence of external defects (growth cracks and second growth)
- Low incidence of internal defects (hollow heart, internal heat necrosis)
- Wide adaptability
- Medium plant size, medium vine size with violet:white flowers
- Medium maturity
- Good (tan) skin-wound healing
- Resistant to common scab
- Moderate to high tolerance for shatter and black spot bruise
- Moderately resistant to Fusarium dry rot and Pectobacterium soft rot
- Susceptible to PVY, but showing good disease expression (clear mosaic symptoms)
- Weaknesses – susceptible to Verticillium wilt but higher tolerance than Russet Norkotah, susceptible to golden cyst nematode
