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Constance

Second early ware variety with a bright yellow skin and light yellow flesh colour.

  • Beautiful appearance
  • Uniform tuber size
  • Rather firm cooking
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Product manager Douwe Werkman about Constance

Our product manager Douwe Werkman explains more about the variety Constance, a second early ware variety with a good regularity of size and high yields. 

Plant and tuber characteristics

  • Maturity
    second early / 7
  • Light sprout colour
    blue violet / BV
  • Flower colour
    white / W
  • Number of berries
    average / 6
  • Foliage - initial development
    quite fast / 7
  • Foliage - final development
    good / 8
  • Foliage - firmness
    quite firm / 7
  • Skin colour
    yellow / Y
  • Flesh colour
    light yellow / 6,5
  • Skin finish
    excellent / 8
  • Tuber shape
    oval round / OR
  • Regularity of tuber shape
    regular / 7
  • Tuberisation
    average / 6
  • Tuber size
    quite large / 7
  • Regularity of size
    regular / 7
  • Dormancy
    average / 6,5

Sensitivity and quality

  • Secondary growth
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Black spot (internal bruising)
    slightly to not sensitive / 8
  • Growth cracks
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Harvest damage
    very sensitive / 4,5
  • Metribuzin - pre-emergence
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Metribuzin - post-emergence
    slightly sensitive / 7,5
  • Bentazon
    slightly to not sensitive / 8
  • Ethylene
    15% to 25% more tubers / 7
  • Underwater weight
    358
  • Dry matter content
    19,7%
  • Cooking type
    rather firm / AB
  • Discolouration (after cooking)
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Raw discolouration
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Fries quality
    below average / 5,5
  • Dry matter distribution
    - / -
  • Crisping quality
    unsuitable / 4
  • TGA-level
    4,3

Resistances

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

Background

Constance is a versatile consumer variety that can be prepared in various ways by the end user. For example, it can be baked or grilled in the oven, boiled, fried, stir-fried or used as an ingredient in a delicious salad – this potato offers endless possibilities! It also has special qualities that are appealing to customers, such as the clear skin that is one of its strongest selling points.

This variety is a cross between Marabel and AR 93-1243, an Agrico Research seedling. Marabel is a major consumer variety in Germany. This is the first successful variety for breeder Jan Lucas Spijkman.

This potato was actually intended to have another name, but the name was unfortunately not approved by the European authorities. It took almost two years before the second proposed name – Constance – was accepted.

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Would you like to know more about the Constance?

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
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