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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
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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
  • Light sprout colour
    blue violet / BV
  • Flower colour
    purple / P
  • Number of berries
    very high / 4
  • Foliage - initial development
    quite fast / 7,5
  • Foliage - final development
    good / 8
  • Foliage - firmness
    quite firm / 7,5
  • Skin colour
    yellow / Y
  • Flesh colour
    light yellow / 6,5
  • Skin finish
    below average / 5,5
  • Tuber shape
    oval round / OR
  • Regularity of tuber shape
    quite regular / 6,5
  • Tuberisation
    quite high / 7
  • Tuber size
    quite large / 7,5
  • Regularity of size
    regular / 7
  • Dormancy
    quite long / 7

Sensitivity and quality

  • Secondary growth
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Black spot (internal bruising)
    slightly sensitive / 7,5
  • Growth cracks
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Harvest damage
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Metribuzin - pre-emergence
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Metribuzin - post-emergence
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Bentazon
    slightly to not sensitive / 8
  • Ethylene
    5% fewer to 5% more tubers / 5
  • Underwater weight
    446
  • Dry matter content
    23,9%
  • Cooking type
    floury / BC
  • Discolouration (after cooking)
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Raw discolouration
    slightly to not sensitive / 8
  • Fries quality
    good / 7
  • Dry matter distribution
    average / 6,5
  • Crisping quality
    excellent / 8
  • TGA-level
    6,5

Resistances

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

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

Adrie Omtzigt
Productmanager
Adrie Omtzigt