The European Cultivated Potato Database

Edgecote Purple

HIGHER TAXON:	Solanaceae
GENUS:	Solanum L.
Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Edgecote Purple
Pedigree:
Breeder:
Breeder's rights:	No [13]
Synonyms:
National list:	before 1916 [9]

		Source
	Character	[2]	[7]	[9]	[12]	[13]
	ADMINISTRATION
n/v	Data source	2	7	9	12	13
n/v	Plant material maintained as	1	-	2	-	-
	Plant health directive EC77/93, requirements	4	4	2	-	1
	Country of origin	-	-	228	-	228
n/v	Sample status	5	5	5	5	5
n/v	Test conditions	1	-	-	1	2
	PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
	Maturity	-	-	4	5	5
	Growth habit	-	-	-	2	-
	Foliage cover	-	-	-	7	-
n/v	Flower colour	-	-	1	1	1
	Flower frequency	-	-	-	6	-
	Stolon length	-	-	-	9	-
n/v	Light sprout colour	2	-	2	-	2
	TUBER CHARACTERISTICS
n/v	Tuber skin colour	3	-	3	-	3
n/v	Tuber eye colour	3	-	-	-	-
n/v	Primary tuber flesh colour	3	-	3	5	3
	Tuber shape	4	-	4	3	5
	Tuber eye depth	7	-	-	8	-
	Tuber skin texture	7	-	-	9	-
	TUBERING CHARACTERISTICS
	Tuber size	6	-	-	5	-
	Tuber shape uniformity	7	-	-	7	-
	Dormancy period	-	-	5	-	-
	UTILISATION CHARACTERISTICS
	Cooking type / 411 Cooked texture	2	-	-	-	-
	After cooking blackening	4	-	-	-	-
	Taste	7	-	-	-	-
	RESISTANCE TO FUNGAL DISEASES
	Resistance to late blight on tubers	-	-	-	4	-
	Resistance to late blight on tubers (Laboratory test)	-	-	-	-	4
	Resistance to late blight on foliage	-	-	-	7	-
	Resistance to late blight on foliage (Laboratory test)	-	-	-	-	4
	RESISTANCE TO PESTS
	Resistance to Globodera rostochiensis race 1	3	-	-	-	-

Source:
[2]	Arche Noah, AUSTRIA	2005
[7]	Department of Agriculture Food and Forestry, IRELAND	2005
[9]	Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), GERMANY	2005
[12]	Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA), UNITED KINGDOM	2005
[13]	SASA, UNITED KINGDOM	2009