The Toscana potato variety is a medium-early maturing table potato known for its attractive appearance and robust performance. It produces oval to round-oval tubers with shallow eyes and deep yellow flesh. This high-yielding maincrop variety is particularly appreciated for its smooth skin and uniformity in shape and size.
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Round oval
- Flesh Color: Yellow
- Eye Depth: Very shallow to shallow
- Skin Color: Yellow
- Skin Texture: Smooth
Resistance Profile
- Nematodes: Resistant to Ro 1, Ro 4
- Leaf Blight: Medium resistance
- Tuber Blight: High resistance
- Rhizoctonia: High resistance
- Black Leg: High resistance
- Common Scab: High resistance
- Internal Rust Spot: Medium to high resistance
- Second Growth: Medium resistance
- Silver Scurf: High resistance
- Damages: High resistance
- Bruising: High to very high resistance
- PVY: Medium resistance
- PVY NTN: Very high resistance
- PLRV: Low resistance
Yield and Quality
- Market Outlet: Suitable for ware, direct marketing, and pre-packing
- Yield: High
- Proportion of Oversized Tubers: Medium
- Proportion of Undersized Tubers: Low
- Cooking Type: Fairly firm
- After Cooking Discoloration: Low
- Raw Discoloration: Low
- Dry Matter Content: Low to medium