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Artemis

A second early ware variety with an excellent yield and perfect for home fries.

  • Excellent frying quality
  • Good tolerance against bruising and damage
  • Multiple resistances
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Product manager Martin Pot about Artemis

Artemis is an early maincrop consumption variety. Product Manager Martin Pot tells more about the good yield, grading and stable skin quality.

Plant and tuber characteristics

  • Maturity
    second early / 7
  • Light sprout colour
    green / G
  • Flower colour
    white / W
  • Number of berries
    very high / 4
  • Foliage - initial development
    quite fast / 7,5
  • Foliage - final development
    average / 7
  • Foliage - firmness
    average / 6
  • Skin colour
    yellow / Y
  • Flesh colour
    light yellow / 6
  • Skin finish
    good / 7
  • Tuber shape
    oval long / OL
  • Regularity of tuber shape
    regular / 7
  • Tuberisation
    quite high / 7
  • Tuber size
    quite large / 7
  • Regularity of size
    regular / 7
  • Dormancy
    quite short / 5,5

Sensitivity and quality

  • Secondary growth
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Black spot (internal bruising)
    slightly to not sensitive / 8
  • Growth cracks
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Harvest damage
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Metribuzin - pre-emergence
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Metribuzin - post-emergence
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Bentazon
    - / -
  • Ethylene
    - / -
  • Underwater weight
    375
  • Dry matter content
    20,4%
  • Cooking type
    rather floury / B
  • Discolouration (after cooking)
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Raw discolouration
    - / -
  • Fries quality
    average / 6
  • Dry matter distribution
    - / -
  • Crisping quality
    average / 6
  • TGA-level
    4,9

Resistances

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

Would you like to know more about the Artemis?

The best way to guarantee a good harvest and the best return on your investment is to start out with healthy, high-quality seed potatoes and expert advice. At Agrico, we are committed to and invest in knowledge and research. This has enabled us to cultivate a wide range of unique potato varieties that display effective resistance, strong variety characteristics and a high yield. Naturally, the seed potatoes we supply are fully certified.

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

Ilie Patu
Productmanager
Ilie Patu