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Zenith

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HIGHER TAXON: Solanaceae
GENUS:Solanum L.
Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Zenith
Pedigree: Saphir x 5158 DDR [8]
Saphir x 5158 DDR (acl,adg,dms) [6,9,13]
Breeder: Asche-Saatzucht [9]
Niederösterreichische Saatbaugenossenschaft, Wien [13]
Breeder's rights: No [13]
Synonyms:
National list: 1976 [8,9]
ADMINISTRATION
Country of originAUSTRIA [6, 8, 9] UNITED KINGDOM [13]
Data sourceCZEHBROD [6] DEU001 [8] DEU416 [9] GBR165 [13] VRI RUSSIA [23]
Plant health directive EC77/93, requirementsFully tested [13] Part tested [8] Infected [6] Untested [9]
Plant material maintained asTuber [9, 13] In-vitro [6, 8]
Sample statusAdvanced cultivar [6, 8, 9, 13, 23]
Test conditionsNon organic [6, 8, 13]
PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
BerriesNo berries [9]
Flower colourWhite [9]
Flower frequencyRare [13] Occasional [9]
Foliage coverModerate to good [9]
Light sprout colourPink [13]
MaturityLate [9] Intermediate to late [8] Intermediate [13]
TUBER CHARACTERISTICS
Primary tuber flesh colourLight yellow [8, 9, 13]
Tuber eye depthMedium to deep [8] Shallow to medium [9]
Tuber shapeOval to round [8, 13] Oval [9]
Tuber skin colourWhite to yellow [8, 9, 13]
TUBERING CHARACTERISTICS
Internal rust spotVery infrequent to infrequent [8] Very infrequent [9]
Resistance to external damageSusceptible to moderate [9] Moderate to resistant [13]
Storage abilityModerate [8]
Tuber shape uniformityMedium to uniform [9]
Yield potentialMedium [9]
UTILISATION CHARACTERISTICS
After cooking blackeningTrace to little [9, 13]
Cooking type / 411 Cooked textureMealy (floury type) to fairly firm (multi-purpose type) [9] Very mealy (floury type) to mealy (floury type) [13]
Crisp suitabilityGood [9, 13]
Dry matter contentHigh to very high [13]
French fry suitabilityPoor [13]
Starch contentMedium to high [9] High [8]
RESISTANCE TO FUNGAL DISEASES
Field immunity to wart racesRace 1 [9]
Resistance to late blight on foliageMedium [8, 9]
Resistance to late blight on foliage(Artificial inoculum in the field)Very low to low [13]
Resistance to late blight on foliage(Laboratory test)Medium [13]
Resistance to late blight on tubersHigh [8, 9]
Resistance to late blight on tubers(Laboratory test)High to very high [13]
Resistance to powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea)Medium to high [8]
Wart (Synchytrium endobioticum)Field immune [8, 9]
RESISTANCE TO BACTERIAL DISEASES
Resistance to common scab (Streptomyces scabies)Medium to high [9] High [13]
RESISTANCE TO VIRUS DISEASES
Resistance to potato leaf roll virusLow to medium [8] Medium to high [9] High [13]
Resistance to potato virus AHigh [8] Very high [9]
Resistance to potato virus Y (strain not specified)Medium to high [8, 9] High to very high [13]
RESISTANCE TO PESTS
Resistance to Globodera rostochiensis race 1Low [8, 9]
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS FACTORS
Drought resistanceHigh [13]


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
[13] SASA, UNITED KINGDOM 2008















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