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Amsel

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HIGHER TAXON: Solanaceae
GENUS:Solanum L.
Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Amsel
Pedigree: Aquila x Flava [8,20]
Aquila x Flava (adg,dms) [9]
Breeder: 120 [9]
Breeder's rights:
Synonyms:
National list: 1956 [8,9,20]
ADMINISTRATION
Country of originGERMANY [8, 9, 20]
Data sourceDEU001 [8] DEU416 [9] POL IPR BON [20] VRI RUSSIA [23]
Plant health directive EC77/93, requirementsPart tested [8, 9] Untested [20]
Plant material maintained asTuber [9, 20, 23] In-vitro [8]
Sample statusAdvanced cultivar [8, 9, 20, 23]
Test conditionsNon organic [8]
PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
BerriesFrequent [9]
Flower colourWhite [9]
Flower frequencyOccasional to frequent [9]
Foliage coverGood [9]
Light sprout colourPink [9]
MaturityEarly to intermediate [8, 9]
Pollen fertilityHigh [23]
TUBER CHARACTERISTICS
Primary tuber flesh colourLight yellow [9] Yellow [8]
Tuber eye depthMedium [8] Shallow to medium [9]
Tuber shapeOval to round [8, 9]
Tuber skin colourWhite to yellow [8, 9]
Tuber skin textureVery smooth to smooth [9]
TUBERING CHARACTERISTICS
Dormancy periodMedium [9]
Growth crackingLow to medium [9]
Hollow heart tendencyVery low to low [9]
Internal rust spotInfrequent [8, 9]
Resistance to external damageModerate to resistant [9]
Resistance to internal bruisingHigh to very high [9]
Storage abilityModerate [8]
Tuber shape uniformityMedium to uniform [9]
Tuber sizeMedium to large [9]
Tubers per plantMany [9]
Yield potentialHigh [9, 23]
UTILISATION CHARACTERISTICS
After cooking blackeningTrace to little [9]
Cooking type / 411 Cooked textureFairly firm (multi-purpose type) [9]
Dry matter contentMedium [23]
Enzymic browningTrace [9]
Starch contentLow [8, 9] High [23]
TasteModerate to good [9]
RESISTANCE TO FUNGAL DISEASES
Field immunity to wart racesRace 1 [9]
Resistance to dry rot (Fusarium spp.)Medium [9]
Resistance to late blight on foliageLow [8, 9]
Resistance to late blight on tubersLow [8] Medium to high [9]
Resistance to powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea)High [8]
Resistance to stem canker (Rhizoctonia solani)High to very high [9]
Wart (Synchytrium endobioticum)Field immune [8, 9]
RESISTANCE TO BACTERIAL DISEASES
Resistance to bacterial soft rot (Erwinia spp.)Medium to high [9]
Resistance to blackleg (Erwinia spp.)Medium [8] High to very high [9]
Resistance to common scab (Streptomyces scabies)Medium [9]
RESISTANCE TO VIRUS DISEASES
Resistance to potato leaf roll virusHigh [8, 9]
Resistance to potato virus AHigh [9]
Resistance to potato virus MMedium [8, 9]
Resistance to potato virus XMedium [8] High [9]
Resistance to potato virus Y (strain not specified)Medium [9] High [8]
RESISTANCE TO PESTS
Resistance to Globodera rostochiensis race 1Low [8, 9]
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS FACTORS
Frost resistanceLow [23]


The following sources maintain more than one accession of the variety Amsel:
Source Accession no. Recorded variations
237874none
237873none
237872none
235177none

Source:
[8] Federal Research Centre of Agriculture, GERMANY 2005
[9] Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), GERMANY 2005
[20] Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, POLAND 2005
[23] N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Scientific Research, RUSSIAN FEDERATION 2005















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