Erika

An early firm cooking, salad and retail variety with a good common scab resistance.

  • Beautiful appearance
  • High tuberisation
  • Good Y-virus resistances
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Plant and tuber characteristics

  • Maturity
    early / 7,5
  • Light sprout colour
    blue violet / BV
  • Flower colour
    white / W
  • Number of berries
    very high / 4
  • Foliage - initial development
    average / 6
  • Foliage - final development
    moderate / 6,5
  • Foliage - firmness
    quite firm / 7
  • Skin colour
    yellow / Y
  • Flesh colour
    light yellow / 6
  • Skin finish
    excellent / 8
  • Tuber shape
    long oval / LO
  • Regularity of tuber shape
    regular / 7
  • Tuberisation
    quite high / 7
  • Tuber size
    quite large / 7
  • Regularity of size
    regular / 7
  • Dormancy
    average / 6,5

Sensitivity and quality

  • Secondary growth
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Black spot (internal bruising)
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Growth cracks
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Harvest damage
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Metribuzin - pre-emergence
    slightly to not sensitive / 8
  • Metribuzin - post-emergence
    slightly sensitive / 7,5
  • Bentazon
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Ethylene
    - / -
  • Underwater weight
    337
  • Dry matter content
    18,6%
  • Cooking type
    firm / A
  • Discolouration (after cooking)
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Raw discolouration
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Fries quality
    unsuitable / 5
  • Dry matter distribution
    - / -
  • Crisping quality
    unsuitable / 4
  • TGA-level
    2,6

Resistances

  • Virus - Leaf roll
    - / -
  • Virus - Yn
    slightly to not susceptible / 8,5
  • Virus - Yntn (tuber)
    slightly susceptible / 7
  • Spraing
    very susceptible / 4
  • Late blight - foliage
    very susceptible / 3,5
  • Late blight - tuber
    very susceptible / 4
  • Fusarium
    susceptible / 5
  • Common scab
    slightly susceptible / 7
  • Powdery scab
    susceptible / 5,5
  • Black dot
    slightly susceptible / 7
  • Wart disease F1
    - / -
  • 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
    - / -

Background

The Erika variety, grown in Austria, is a textbook example of how the international cooperation within the Agrico network is bearing fruit.

The variety is bred for the salat market, which requires potatoes with a firm cooking type, fine texture and excellent flavor. Erika amply meets these requirements and then exceeds them with the addition of a supreme presentation that has excited great interest from Portugal, France and Italy. And we’re sure it won’t stop there!

This potato originated from a crossing between parent varieties Marabel, from the Mansholt company, and an Agrico Research seedling (AR 88-156). Despite the fact that the cross was carried out at Agrico Research, the variety was selected in Austria by the NiederOostenreichischer Saatbaugenossenschaft (NOS). They regularly use parents from among Agrico varieties. In addition, each year they apply for 1,000 seeds from the Agrico Research breeding program. The Erika variety came from one of these orders and a partnership of more than 30 years.

As well as the breeding station, the NOS also has a trial field location that houses all Agrico seedlings alongside their own tests. The manager of this trial station has a lovely wife named Erika, after whom the variety is named. Moreover, it’s a name that is easy to pronounce and remember in many languages.

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Would you like to know more about the Erika?

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.

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Ilie Patu
Productmanager
Ilie Patu