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Alouette

An early maincrop, versatile red skin ware variety with late blight resistance in foliage and tuber, suitable for conventional and organic production.
  • Good tolerance against bruising
  • Suitable for cooking and home baked products
  • Good drought tolerance
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Organic
Traditional
Retail
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Product manager Adrie Omtzigt about Alouette

Product manager Adrie Omtzigt explains that this red-skinned Next Generation variety is well suitable for both organic and conventional production, even in warmer climats. 

 

Plant and tuber characteristics

  • Maturity:
    early maincrop / 6
  • Tuber shape:
    oval long / OL
  • Flesh colour:
    yellow / 7,5
  • 5 low | 9 high
    Tuberisation:
    average / 6
  • Tuber size:
    quite large / 7
  • Skin colour:
    red / R
  • Flower colour:
    light purple / LP
  • Number of berries:
    none / 4
  • Foliage - initial development:
    fast / 8
  • Foliage - final development:
    good / 8
  • Foliage - selectability:
    average / 6
  • Foliage - firmness:
    quite firm / 7,5
  • Light sprout colour:
    red violet / RV
  • Regularity of tuber shape:
    regular / 7
  • Regularity of size:
    quite regular / 6,5
  • Skin finish:
    good / 7

Sensitivity and quality

  • Underwater weight:
    389
  • Cooking type:
    rather firm / AB
  • 4 short | 8 long
    Dormancy:
    average / 6
  • Harvest damage:
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Metribuzin - pre-emergence:
    slightly sensitive / 7,5
  • Metribuzin - post-emergence:
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • 3 very sensitive | 8 minimum tot none sensitive
    Bentazon:
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • 4 poor result | 8 good result
    Ethylene:
    5% fewer tubers / 4
  • Secondary growth:
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Growth cracks:
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Black spot (internal bruising):
    slightly to not sensitive / 8
  • Dry matter content :
    21,1
  • Dry matter distribution:
    - / -
  • TGA-level:
    3,6
  • Raw discolouration:
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Gray discolouration (after cooking):
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Fries quality:
    above average / 6,5
  • Crisping quality:
    - / -
  • Carvone oil:
    5% to 15% more tubers / 6
  • Mutation rate:
    this variety may exhibit a high mutation rate. Therefore, the use of carvone oil is discouraged. / Use of carvone oil can provoke mutations.

Resistances

  • Late blight - foliage:
    slightly to not susceptible / 9
  • Late blight - tuber:
    slightly to not susceptible / 9
  • Common scab:
    slightly susceptible / 6
  • Golden nematode Ro 1/4:
    resistant / 9
  • Golden nematode Ro 2/3:
    field resistant / 8
  • White nematode Pa 2:
    - / -
  • White nematode Pa 3:
    - / -
  • Powdery scab:
    slightly susceptible / 6,5
  • Fusarium:
    slightly susceptible / 7,5
  • Erwinia:
    - / -
  • Black dot:
    - / -
  • Spraing:
    susceptible / 5,5
  • Virus - Leaf roll:
    - / -
  • Virus - A:
    - / -
  • Virus - X:
    slightly susceptible / 7
  • Virus - Yn:
    slightly to not susceptible / 8
  • Virus - Yntn (tuber):
    slightly susceptible / 7
  • Wart disease F1:
    resistant / 10
  • Wart disease F6:
    - / -
  • Wart disease F18:
    - / -

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If you have any specific questions about the Alouetteor would like to know what Agrico can do for you with respect to varieties, please feel free to contact us.

Martin Pot

Product Manager
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