Market segment - Organic Organic
Market segment - Retail Fresh
Market segment - Traditional Traditional

Agostino

Early maincrop red skin ware variety with late blight resistance in foliage and tuber.

  • Large tubers
  • Good tuberisation
  • Good dry matter content
Websitefoto's HR Agostino GRB CL©Agrico20
Websitefoto's HR Agostino SNG CC©Agrico21
Agrico Aardappelveld

Plant and tuber characteristics

  • Maturity
    early maincrop / 5,5
  • Light sprout colour
    red / R
  • Flower colour
    light purple / LP
  • Number of berries
    very high / 4
  • Foliage - initial development
    fast / 8
  • Foliage - final development
    good / 8
  • Foliage - firmness
    quite firm / 7,5
  • Foliage - selectability
    average / 6,5
  • Skin colour
    red / R
  • Flesh colour
    light yellow / 6,5
  • Skin finish
    good / 7
  • Tuber shape
    oval round / OR
  • Regularity of tuber shape
    regular / 7
  • Tuberisation
    quite high / 7
  • Tuber size
    quite large / 7,5
  • Regularity of size
    quite regular / 6,5

Sensitivity and quality

  • Secondary growth
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Black spot (internal bruising)
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Growth cracks
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Harvest damage
    sensitive / 5,5
  • Metribuzin - pre-emergence
    slightly sensitive / 7,5
  • Metribuzin - post-emergence
    slightly to not sensitive / 8
  • Bentazon
    - / -
  • Ethylene
    5% to 15% more tubers / 6
  • Underwater weight
    387
  • Dry matter content
    21%
  • Cooking type
    floury / BC
  • Discolouration after cooking
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Raw discolouration
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Fries quality
    average / 6
  • Dry matter distribution
    - / -
  • Crisping quality
    unsuitable / 5
  • TGA-level
    2,6
  • Carvone oil
    15% to 25% more tubers / 7
  • Dormancy
    quite long / 7

Resistances

  • Virus - Leaf roll
    - / -
  • Virus - Yn
    susceptible / 5,5
  • Virus - Yntn (tuber)
    very susceptible / 4,5
  • Spraing
    susceptible / 5,5
  • Late blight - foliage
    slightly to not susceptible / 8,5
  • Late blight - tuber
    slightly to not susceptible / 9
  • Fusarium
    slightly susceptible / 6
  • Common scab
    susceptible / 5
  • Powdery scab
    - / -
  • Virus - A
    - / -
  • Virus - X
    - / -
  • Black dot
    slightly susceptible / 6,5
  • Erwinia
    - / -
  • Wart disease F1
    resistant / 10
  • Wart disease F6
    - / -
  • Wart disease F18
    - / -
  • Golden nematode Ro 1/4
    - / -
  • Golden nematode Ro 2/3
    - / -
  • White nematode Pa 2
    - / -
  • White nematode Pa 3
    - / -

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