Processing Crisps, Flakes

Napoleon

Maincrop crisping variety with a good uniformity of size and a high dry matter content.

  • Good crisping quality
  • Suitable for the processing of flakes
  • Good virus resistances
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Product manager Adrie Omtzigt about Napoleon

Napoleon is a new potato chip variety from Agrico. Adrie Omtzigt will explain its regular grading, good frying quality and its few sugar defects.

 

Plant and tuber characteristics

  • Maturity
    maincrop / 5
  • Light sprout colour
    red violet / RV
  • Flower colour
    white / W
  • Number of berries
    very high / 4
  • Foliage - initial development
    quite fast / 7
  • Foliage - final development
    good / 8
  • Foliage - firmness
    quite firm / 7,5
  • Skin colour
    yellow / Y
  • Flesh colour
    light yellow / 6,5
  • Skin finish
    quite poor / 5
  • Tuber shape
    round oval / RO
  • Regularity of tuber shape
    regular / 7
  • Tuberisation
    average / 6
  • Tuber size
    quite large / 7,5
  • Regularity of size
    regular / 7
  • Dormancy
    average / 6

Sensitivity and quality

  • Secondary growth
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Black spot (internal bruising)
    sensitive / 5,5
  • Growth cracks
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Harvest damage
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Metribuzin - pre-emergence
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Metribuzin - post-emergence
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Bentazon
    - / -
  • Ethylene
    5% fewer to 5% more tubers / 5
  • Underwater weight
    450
  • Dry matter content
    24,1%
  • Cooking type
    floury / BC
  • Discolouration (after cooking)
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Raw discolouration
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Fries quality
    good / 7
  • Dry matter distribution
    good / 7
  • Crisping quality
    excellent / 8
  • TGA-level
    4,0

Resistances

  • Virus - Leaf roll
    - / -
  • Virus - Yn
    slightly to not susceptible / 8
  • Virus - Yntn (tuber)
    slightly to not susceptible / 8
  • Spraing
    susceptible / 5
  • Late blight - foliage
    slightly susceptible / 6
  • Late blight - tuber
    slightly susceptible / 6,5
  • Fusarium
    slightly susceptible / 6,5
  • Common scab
    slightly susceptible / 6
  • Powdery scab
    - / -
  • Black dot
    slightly susceptible / 6
  • 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
    susceptible / 4
  • White nematode Pa 3
    susceptible / 2

Would you like to know more about the Napoleon?

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