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Caruso
- Crisps
- Dehydrated potato products
- light yellow flesh colour
- rough skin
- relatively high starch content -[gt] dry products
- very heat tolerant
- high tolerance to late blight
- green top harvest possible
- very rapid youth development
- strong, robust canopy, very good crop cover
- very high tuberset
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Plant |
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| Maturity | Medium early |
| Plant type | Intermediate |
| Growth habit | Semi-upright |
| Color of flower | White |
| Foliage development | Very rapid |
| Number of tubers | High |
| Dormancy | Low, Medium |
Tuber characteristics |
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| Tuber shape | Round oval |
| Flesh color | Light yellow |
| Eye depth | Shallow, Medium |
| Skin color | Yellow |
| Skin characteristic | Rough |
Resistances |
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| Nematodes | Ro 1, Ro 4 |
| Leaf blight | Medium, High |
| Tuber blight | High |
| Rhizoctonia | High |
| Black leg | High |
| Common scab | Medium, High |
| Internal rust spot | High |
| Second growth | Medium |
| Damages | Low, Medium |
| Bruising | Medium |
| PVY | High |
| PVY ntn | High |
| PLRV | Medium, High |
Yield and Quality |
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| Market outlet | Crisps, Dehydrated potato products |
| Yield | Medium |
| Share oversize | Low |
| Share undersize | Medium |
| Dry matter content | High |
| Chips quality after harvest | Very good |
| Chips quality after longterm storage | Good |
* found to be resistant in a EU-country
