Bonnie

Origin

Breeder Cygnet PB

Parentage Estima x 83N28-47

National List Trials Completed 2005

Plant Breeders Rights April 2006

Botanical Features

Maturity Second Early

End Use Pre-pack / Early Baker

Haulm Medium

Flowers White Flowers

Tubers Bold round/oval tubers with yellow skin, pink splash and cream flesh

Pest & Disease Performance

Wart Disease

Immune

Spraing

Foliage Blight

Black Dot

Tuber Blight

Black Scurf

Blackleg

Skin Spot

Common Scab

Silver Scurf

Powdery Scab

Dry Rot (Fusarium coeruleum)

Gangrene

Dry Rot (Fusarium sulphureum)

Potato Leaf Roll Virus

PCN Ro1

Resistant

Potato Virus Y

PCN pallida

Susceptible

Consumer Quality

Bold tubers with a splash of colour will prove very attractive to supermarkets and consumers. Boils and bakes very well. Recent taste trials have highlighted both Bonnies’ taste and consumer acceptance.

Agronomic Features

Bonnie with its early production of boiled even sized tubers is ideally suited for the early baker market. Bonnie will produce crops with high proportions of bakers. This coupled with Bonnie’s bright appearance offers growers an improvement over existing early pre-pack varieties. Bonnie has performed particularly well in overseas trials especially in hotter climates.