Armedi

Flowering potato field with mountains

Armedi

An early maincrop processing variety suitable for the French fries industry.  

  • Market outlets: processing
  • Maturity: early maincrop 
  • Average yield: [?]
  • Crossing: Topas x Basin Russet
Armedi tubers with cut tuber

Quality

  • Tuber shape: oval long
  • Uniform of shape: regular
  • Eye depth: [?]
  • Skin color: yellow
  • Flesh color: light yellow
  • Dry matter percent: 21.8

Disease resistance

  • Late blight (foliage blight): very susceptible
  • Common scab: susceptible 
  • Virus PVV: [?]
  • Tuber blight: slightly susceptible 
  • PCN - Ro1 & Ro4: resistant / field resistant
  • Virus Yntn: - 
  • Fusarium (Dry Rot): slighty susceptible

Agronomy

  • Dormancy: average
  • Tuber number: average
  • Resistance to damage: very sensitive
  • Resistance to bruising: quite sensitive
  • Secondary growth: quite sensitive
  • Flower colour: purple

Storage recommendation

Suitable for long term storage.

Resistance

It has good multiple potato cyst nematodes resistances. 

Armedi potato flower

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