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Echo

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HIGHER TAXON: Solanaceae
GENUS:Solanum L.
Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Echo
Pedigree:
Breeder: Pflanzenzucht Saka [9]
Breeder's rights:
Synonyms:
National list: 1969 [8,9,20]
ADMINISTRATION
Country of originGERMANY [6, 8, 9, 20]
Data sourceCZEHBROD [6] DEU001 [8] DEU416 [9] FRA179 [11] POL IPR BON [20] VRI RUSSIA [23]
Plant health directive EC77/93, requirementsPart tested [8, 9, 11, 20] Infected [6]
Plant material maintained asTuber [9, 23] In-vitro [6, 8, 11, 20]
Sample statusAdvanced cultivar [6, 8, 9, 11, 20, 23]
Test conditionsNon organic [6, 8]
PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
Flower colourWhite [9]
Flower frequencyFrequent [9]
Foliage coverGood [9]
MaturityIntermediate [8, 9]
TUBER CHARACTERISTICS
Primary tuber flesh colourYellow [8, 9]
Tuber eye depthMedium to deep [8] Medium [9]
Tuber shapeOval to round [8, 9]
Tuber skin colourWhite to yellow [8, 9]
Tuber skin textureSmooth [9]
TUBERING CHARACTERISTICS
Internal rust spotMedium [8, 9]
Resistance to external damageModerate to resistant [9]
Storage abilityPoor [8]
Tuber shape uniformityMedium [9]
Tuber sizeMedium [9]
Yield potentialMedium to high [9]
UTILISATION CHARACTERISTICS
After cooking blackeningTrace to little [9]
Cooking type / 411 Cooked textureMealy (floury type) to fairly firm (multi-purpose type) [9]
Dry matter contentMedium [23]
Starch contentLow to medium [8, 9]
TasteGood [9]
RESISTANCE TO FUNGAL DISEASES
Field immunity to wart racesRace 1 [9]
Resistance to late blight on foliageMedium [23] Medium to high [8, 9]
Resistance to late blight on tubersMedium [8, 9, 23]
Resistance to powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea)Medium [8]
Resistance to stem canker (Rhizoctonia solani)Medium [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.)High [9]
Resistance to common scab (Streptomyces scabies)Medium [9]
RESISTANCE TO VIRUS DISEASES
Resistance to potato leaf roll virusMedium to high [9] High [8]
Resistance to potato virus AMedium to high [9] High [8]
Resistance to potato virus Y (strain not specified)Medium [8, 9]
RESISTANCE TO PESTS
Resistance to Globodera rostochiensis race 1Low [8, 9]


The following sources maintain more than one accession of the variety Echo:
Source Accession no. Recorded variations
239865none
2319602none

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
[11] INRA, FRANCE 2005
[20] Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, POLAND 2005
[23] N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Scientific Research, RUSSIAN FEDERATION 2005















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