The European Cultivated Potato Database

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Characters	Erdmanna	Aquila	Merkur
Foliage cover	8[9]	7[9]	-
Flower colour	2[9]	-	-
Flower frequency	6[9]	2[13] 6[9]	-
Berries	3[9]	3[9]	-
Pollen fertility	-	5[23]	-
Light sprout colour	1[9]	1[13]	-
Tuber skin colour	1[9]	1[9,13]	-
Primary tuber flesh colour	3[9] 4[8]	3[8,9,13]	-
Tuber shape	2[8,9]	2[8] 3[9,13]	-
Tuber eye depth	4[9] 5[8]	6[9] 7[8]	-
Yield potential	5[23] 7[9]	5[9,23]	-
Tuber size	5[9]	6[9] 7[13]	-
Tuber shape uniformity	6[9]	6[9]	-
Internal rust spot	6[8]	6[8] 7[9]	-
Dormancy period	-	3[13]	-
Storage ability	4[8]	-	-
Cooking type / 411 Cooked texture	6[9]	6[9]	-
After cooking blackening	7[9]	7[9]	-
Taste	6[9]	6[9]	-
Dry matter content	7[23]	5[23] 9[13]	-
Starch content	5[8,9]	5[8,23] 6[9]	-
Presence of late blight R gene	-	6[13]	-
Resistance to common scab (Streptomyces scabies)	6[9]	3[9]	-
Resistance to powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea)	5[8]	3[8]	-
Wart (Synchytrium endobioticum)	2[9]	2[8,9]	-
Field immunity to wart races	1[9]	1[9]	-
Resistance to blackleg (Erwinia spp.)	-	7[9]	-
Resistance to bacterial soft rot (Erwinia spp.)	-	7[9]	-
Resistance to potato virus A	4[8]	5[8] 7[9]	-
Resistance to potato virus M	5[9]	8[9]	-
Resistance to potato virus X	-	7[9]	-
Resistance to potato virus Y (strain not specified)	6[8,9]	5[13] 6[8,9]	-
Resistance to potato leaf roll virus	6[9] 7[8]	5[13] 6[9] 7[8]	-
Resistance to Globodera rostochiensis race 1	3[9]	3[8,9]	-
Resistance to late blight on tubers	5[8,9] 7[23]	5[23] 6[8,9]	-
Resistance to late blight on foliage	4[8] 5[9] 7[23]	5[8,23] 6[9,13]	-

Source:
[8]	Mix-Wagner, Gunda	1997	Federal Research Centre of Agriculture, GERMANY
[9]	Scheler, Konrad	2000	Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), GERMANY
[23]	Kiru, Stepan	1999	N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Scientific Research, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
[5]	Luca, Lovatti	1998	Centro Interprovinciale di Sperimentazione Ag, ITALY
[7]	Choiseul, James	1996	Department of Agriculture Food and Forestry, IRELAND
[11]	Ellisseche, Daniel	2000	INRA, FRANCE
[20]	Zimnoch-Guzowska, Ewa	2000	Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, POLAND
[22]	Vern, E.V.	2000	VERN e.V., GERMANY
[13]	Campbell, Heather	2000	SASA, UNITED KINGDOM
[40]	Dillon, Joan	2006	Teagasc Crops Research Centre, IRELAND
[49]	Gibson, Jackie	2006	SASA, UNITED KINGDOM