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Description:
A very high yielding crisping variety with excellent fry colours from field and suitable for medium term storage. Low levels of bruising and crisp defects, excellent bite and taste, INFINITY is an early bulking maincrop potato with high dry matter. Very good resistance to PMTV/spraying and also resistant to drought and blackleg.

Parentage:
Lady Rosetta x Rooster

Dormancy:
Normal (6)

Maturity:
Early maincrop

Cooking type:
C

Market:
Fresh / Crisping / French fries

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Tuber Characteristics


Shape:
Round to short oval

Skin colour:
Deep Red

Flesh colour:
Cream

Eye depth:
Shallow

DM:
24%

Overall keeping quality:
Good

Damage:
7

Bruising:
7

Yield:
High


Resistance to Diseases & Pests


Common scab:
6

Powdery scab:
6

Foliage blight:
4

Tuber blight:
4

Blackleg:
7

Wart disease:
I

PCN Ro1:
S

PCN Pallida:
S


Growing Advice:
 

• Excellent option for crisp production with good resistance to blackleg and bruising.
• Close inter-row spacing may be required to achieve target size for crisping.
• Herbicide sensitivity: Metribuzin can be used pre-emergence only.


Key

Scale of 1 to 9 (9 being the most desirable)

I = Immune R = Resistant S = Susceptible n/a = Result Not Available

Cooking Type A = Firm, B = Fairly Firm, C = Floury, D = Very Floury