Organic
Processing
Crisps, Flakes

Beyonce

An early maincrop crisping variety with a good dry matter content, suitable for medium term storage and late blight resistance in foliage and tuber.
  • Large tubers
  • Good dormancy
  • Quite high tuberisation
Marketsegments
Organic
Processing
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Product manager Gerdien Poppe about Beyonce

Product manager Gerdien Poppe introduces the new variety Beyonce. It is an early maincrop variety. With its high dry matter content, ideal oval round tuber shape and light yellow flesh colour. It is perfectly suitable for the production of chips. 

Plant and tuber characteristics

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

Sensitivity and quality

  • Underwater weight:
    446
  • Cooking type:
    floury / BC
  • 4 short | 8 long
    Dormancy:
    quite long / 7
  • Harvest damage:
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Metribuzin - pre-emergence:
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Metribuzin - post-emergence:
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • 3 very sensitive | 8 minimum tot none sensitive
    Bentazon:
    slightly to not sensitive / 8
  • 4 poor result | 8 good result
    Ethylene:
    5% fewer to 5% more tubers / 5
  • Secondary growth:
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Growth cracks:
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Black spot (internal bruising):
    slightly sensitive / 7,5
  • Dry matter content :
    23,9
  • Dry matter distribution:
    average / 6,5
  • TGA-level:
    6,5
  • Raw discolouration:
    slightly to not sensitive / 8
  • Gray discolouration (after cooking):
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Fries quality:
    good / 7
  • Crisping quality:
    excellent / 8
  • Carvone oil:
    5% to 15% more tubers / 6

Resistances

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

Would you like to know more about the Beyonce?

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 Beyonceor would like to know what Agrico can do for you with respect to varieties, please feel free to contact us.

Adrie Omtzigt

Product Manager
Omtzigt, Adrie | PM | Portret

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