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  Eve Balfour Wednesday, November 19, 2008  

Eve Balfour

Eve Balfour

 

EVE BALFOUR

Parentage:

Stirling x 15119AC (1991)

Breeder:

Scottish Crop Research Institute
Invergowrie
DUNDEE
DD2 5DA

   

Agent:

Greenvale AP plc
Floods Ferry Road
DODDINGTON
March
Cambridgeshire
PE15 0UW

   

UK National List:

2002

Plant Breeders Right:

2002

   

Intended Market:

General Purpose

   

Maturity:

Early Maincrop

   

General Description:

Medium height, semi erect, no colour on stems.

Few, small, white flowers.

Round tubers, shallow-medium eyes,

white skin, white flesh.


DISEASE RESISTANCE (1 = susceptible, 9 = resistant)

   

1.    Wart Disease (race 1):

1

   

2.    Foliage late blight:

7

3.    Tuber late blight:

9

4.    Blackleg:

6

   

5.    Potato Virus Y°:

8

   

6.    Potato Leafroll Virus:

5

7.    Common scab:

4

   

8.    Powdery scab:

7

9.    Gangrene:

6

10.  Potato Cyst Nematode

 
   

10.1 Globodera rostochiensis Ro1:

5.4

10.2 Globodera pallida Pa1:

3.9

                                        Pa2,3:

4.4

 

RESISTANCE TO DAMAGE

   

1.     External:

2

   

2.     Internal:

3

   

OTHER CHARACTERISTICS

 
   

1.     Specific gravity (1 = low):

4

 

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