The European Cultivated Potato Database

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Characters	Vandel Kaptah	Robusta	Flava
Foliage cover	7[9]	7[9]	7[9]
Flower colour	1[9]	1[9]	1[9]
Flower frequency	7[9]	6[9]	6[9]
Berries	7[9]	-	-
Pollen fertility	-	-	5[23]
Light sprout colour	1[9]	-	-
Tuber skin colour	4[9]	4[9]	1[8,9]
Primary tuber flesh colour	2[9]	1[9]	3[9] 5[8]
Tuber shape	2[9]	3[9]	2[8,9]
Tuber eye depth	4[9]	6[9]	5[8,9]
Tuber skin texture	-	-	5[9]
Yield potential	6[9]	5[9]	7[9,23]
Tubers per plant	5[9]	-	5[9]
Tuber size	7[9]	5[9]	5[9]
Tuber shape uniformity	4[9]	5[9]	6[9]
Secondary growth	7[9]	-	-
Hollow heart tendency	7[9]	-	-
Internal rust spot	6[9]	-	-
Resistance to external damage	5[9]	8[9]	-
Dormancy period	7[9]	-	-
Storage ability	-	-	3[8]
Cooking type / 411 Cooked texture	-	3[9]	-
Taste	5[9]	5[9]	7[9]
Dry matter content	-	-	7[23]
Starch content	7[9]	7[9]	5[23] 6[8,9]
Resistance to common scab (Streptomyces scabies)	5[9]	3[9]	3[9]
Resistance to powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea)	-	-	4[8]
Wart (Synchytrium endobioticum)	2[9]	2[9]	2[9]
Field immunity to wart races	1[9]	1[9]	1[9]
Resistance to gangrene (Phoma foveata)	5[9]	-	-
Resistance to dry rot (Fusarium spp.)	5[9]	-	-
Resistance to bacterial soft rot (Erwinia spp.)	7[9]	-	8[9]
Resistance to potato virus A	-	-	6[8]
Resistance to potato virus M	3[9]	7[9]	-
Resistance to potato virus X	2[9]	7[9]	1[8]
Resistance to potato virus Y (strain not specified)	5[9]	7[9]	2[9] 6[8]
Resistance to potato leaf roll virus	5[9]	7[9]	6[8,9]
Resistance to tobacco rattle virus	7[9]	-	-
Resistance to Globodera rostochiensis race 1	3[9]	3[9]	3[9]
Drought resistance	5[9]	-	-
Resistance to late blight on tubers	5[9]	7[9]	5[9] 7[23]
Resistance to late blight on foliage	5[9]	7[9]	4[9] 5[23]

Source:
[9]	Scheler, Konrad	2000	Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), GERMANY
[11]	Ellisseche, Daniel	2000	INRA, FRANCE
[20]	Zimnoch-Guzowska, Ewa	2000	Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, POLAND
[7]	Choiseul, James	1996	Department of Agriculture Food and Forestry, IRELAND
[8]	Mix-Wagner, Gunda	1997	Federal Research Centre of Agriculture, GERMANY
[22]	Vern, E.V.	2000	VERN e.V., GERMANY
[23]	Kiru, Stepan	1999	N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Scientific Research, RUSSIAN FEDERATION