Chicago

Origin

Breeder Cygnet PB

Parentage Midas x 93G181-010

National List Trials 2008 and 2009

Plant Breeders Rights

Botanical Features

Maturity Maincrop

End Use

Haulm Tall upright

Flowers

Tubers Round tubers with pink eyes, light yellow 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

Partial Resistance

Consumer Quality

98C 051-002 is a maincrop crisping variety, with excellent long term sugar and low defects, comparable or superior to current standards. In trials at Cambridge, sugars and dry matter were tested at 120 days after planting. Results showed that 98C 051-002 glucose had declined to almost zero and sucrose to a level where storage would be possible, comparing well to Lady Rossetta, Saturna and significantly better than Hermes. By 90 days 98C 051-002 had produced 20% dry matter, 2% more than Hermes. This differential was maintained throughout the season.

Agronomic Features

98C 051-002 has good heat and drought tolerance and high yield potential overseas (120% yield of current varieties in Spanish trial). It has potential for significantly better disease and pest resistance than current varieties, partial pallida resistance and better resistance to blight. It has good resistance to bruising and internal defects. Improved tuber numbers produces 1 or 2 more than Hermes.