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Hunter




                  

Hunter

                  

 

Parentage:

D42/8 x Agria


Breeder:


Robert Brady

8 Ballyloughan Avenue

Ballymena

Co. Antrim

N. Ireland

BT43 5HN

 

Agent:

Not Applicable

 

UK National List:

2004

Plant Breeders Right:

2003

Intended Market:

French Fry

Maturity:

Early Maincrop

General Description:

Plant: medium height, spreading, faint local colour on stem

Flowers: absent-rare

Tuber: round-oval, eyes shallow-medium

Skin: white

Flesh: light yellow


DISEASE RESISTANCE (1 = susceptible, 9 = resistant)

 

 

1.    Wart Disease (race 1):

Susceptible

2.    Foliage late blight:

5

3.    Tuber late blight:

3

4.    Blackleg:

2

5.    Potato Virus Y°:

6

6.    Potato Leafroll Virus:

5

7.    Common scab:

5

8.    Powdery scab:

2

9.    Gangrene:

7

10.  Potato Cyst Nematode

 

10.1 Globodera rostochiensis Ro1:

7.6

10.2 Globodera pallida Pa1:

3.3

Pa2,3:

3.3

 

RESISTANCE TO DAMAGE

1.    External:

2

2.    Internal:

4

 

 

OTHER CHARACTERISTICS

 

1.    Specific gravity (1 = low):

5

 

 

 

 

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