Desiree is a fairly firm cooking consumption variety with large, long, oval tubers and a red skin. It is very suitable for the production of French fries, when grown in a warm climate.
Desiree
General
Parentage
Urgenta x Depeche
Maturity
Moderately late
Foliage development
Good
Metribuzin
Moderately sensitive
Tuber shape
Long oval
Skin colour
Red
Flesh colour
Pale yellow
Shallowness of eyes
Shallow eyes
Yield
High
Tuber size
Large
Dormancy period
Medium long dormancy
Market
Traditional & French fries
Cooking type
BC (waxy to floury)
Discoloration after cooking
No discoloration
Dry matter content
20,2 %
Disease resistance
Blight foliar
5
Blight tuber
7,5
Common scab
4
PVX
7
PVY
8
Drought tolerance
8
Wart disease Fysio 1
Resistant
PCN resistance Ro1 & Ro4
Susceptible
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