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Beta

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HIGHER TAXON: Solanaceae
GENUS:Solanum L.
Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Beta
Pedigree: Fruhbote x Kaiserkrone [6,8,9]
Breeder: Asche-Saatzucht [9]
Breeder's rights:
Synonyms:
National list: 1955 [8,9]
ADMINISTRATION
Country of originPOLAND [6, 8, 9]
Data sourceCZEHBROD [6] DEU001 [8] DEU416 [9] VRI RUSSIA [23]
Plant health directive EC77/93, requirementsFully tested [9] Part tested [8] Infected [6]
Plant material maintained asTuber [23] In-vitro [6, 8, 9]
Sample statusAdvanced cultivar [6, 8, 9, 23]
Test conditionsNon organic [6, 8]
PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
BerriesNo berries [9]
Flower colourWhite [9]
Flower frequencyRare [9]
Foliage coverGood [9]
Light sprout colourGreen [9]
MaturityEarly [8, 9]
Pollen fertilityModerate [23]
TUBER CHARACTERISTICS
Primary tuber flesh colourLight yellow [8, 9]
Tuber eye depthMedium [8] Shallow to medium [9]
Tuber shapeOval [8, 9]
Tuber skin colourWhite to yellow [8, 9]
TUBERING CHARACTERISTICS
Tuber shape uniformityMedium to uniform [9]
Tuber sizeMedium [9]
Yield potentialMedium [23] Medium to high [9]
UTILISATION CHARACTERISTICS
After cooking blackeningNone [9]
Cooking type / 411 Cooked textureMealy (floury type) to fairly firm (multi-purpose type) [9]
French fry suitabilityGood [9]
Starch contentLow [8] Low to medium [9]
TasteGood [9]
RESISTANCE TO FUNGAL DISEASES
Field immunity to wart racesRace 1 [9]
Resistance to late blight on foliageVery low to low [8] Low [9]
Resistance to late blight on tubersLow [8] Medium [9]
Resistance to powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea)Low [8]
Resistance to stem canker (Rhizoctonia solani)Medium to high [9]
Wart (Synchytrium endobioticum)Field immune [8, 9]
RESISTANCE TO BACTERIAL DISEASES
Resistance to common scab (Streptomyces scabies)Medium to high [9]
RESISTANCE TO VIRUS DISEASES
Resistance to potato leaf roll virusLow [8, 9]
Resistance to potato virus Y (strain not specified)Low to medium [8] Medium to high [9]
RESISTANCE TO PESTS
Resistance to Globodera rostochiensis race 1Low [9]
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS FACTORS
Frost resistanceMedium [23]


The following sources maintain more than one accession of the variety Beta:
Source Accession no. Recorded variations
2311146none
2311145none

Source:
[6] Potato Research Institute, CZECH REPUBLIC 2010
[8] Federal Research Centre of Agriculture, GERMANY 2005
[9] Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), GERMANY 2005
[23] N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Scientific Research, RUSSIAN FEDERATION 2005















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