Variety Catalog – Aruba

Characteristics and description of the variety

BASIC DATA

Variety Name: Aruba
Earliness: wczesna
Usage type: jadalna

ORIGIN

Origin: Asterix x I.77.1/14
Country of origin: Polska
Year of registration in Poland: 2007
Year of removal from the register:
Breeder: HZ Zamarte
The representative maintaining the variety in Poland: Hodowla Ziemniaka Zamarte sp. z o.o. – Grupa IHAR

COMPOSITION (CONTENT)

Starch content [%]: 14.5
Dry matter content [%]: 23.2
Vitamin C content [mg%]: 18.4
Glycoalkaloid content [mg/kg fresh weight]: 106.0
Solanine content in tubers [%]: 6.4

STORAGE

Storage Durability: 8
Recommended Storage Temperature for Seed Potatoes [°C]: 3-5
Recommended Storage Temperature for Edible/Processing Potatoes [°C]: 4
Bulb Dormancy Period: 3

BULWY

Kształt bulw: owalny
Regularność kształtu: 7.5
Głębokość oczek: 6.0
Wielkość bulw: 7.4
Kolor skórki: żółta
Gładkość skórki: gładka
Kolor miąższu: biały-kremowy
Barwa kiełków świetlnych: czerwonofioletowa

KWIATY

Barwa kwiatów: biały
Obfitość kwitnienia: 5
Barwa pylnikow:
Długość słupka:

KRZAK

Wysokość roślin: średnia – wysoka
Grubość łodygi:

 

6
Typ pokroju roślin: pośredni

TASTE

Culinary type: B-BC
Taste: dość dobry
Taste [1-9]: 6.3

BROWNING OF THE FLESH

Raw after 4 hours: 6.0
Cooked after 10 min: 8.7
Cooked after 24 hours: 8.0

SUITABILITY FOR

Fries:
Suitability for fries – index:
Chips:
Suitability for chips – index:
Dried products:
Canned and frozen products: Yes
Salads:
Mashed potatoes, dumplings, pancakes, noodles: Yes

SKŁONNOŚCI DO

Dark powdery mildew: 6
Bulb deformations: 3.0
Bulb cracking: 4
Rusty discoloration of the flesh: 2
Hollowness of bulbs:

POTATO NEMYTH

Pathotype resistance: Ro1, Ro3, Ro4

POTATO CANCER

Pathotype resistance: D1

VIRUSES

Potato Virus Y – PVY: 8
Response on tubers after PVYNTN infection:
Leafroll Virus – PLRV: 5-6
Potato Virus M – PVM: podatna
Potato Virus M – PVM [1-9]:
Potato Virus X – PVX:

POTATO BLIGHT

Leaf resistance to potato late blight: 4.0
Tuber resistance to potato late blight:

ROT

Tuber resistance to wet rot:
Tuber resistance to wet rot:

OTHER DISEASES

Tuber resistance to mechanical damage: 6
Plant resistance to blackleg:
Tuber resistance to common scab:
Tendency of tubers to silver scurf infection: 6.0
Tendency to tuber cracking

TOTAL YIELD

After 60 days from planting [dt/ha]:
After 75 days from planting [dt/ha]:
At the end of vegetation [dt/ha]: 377

COMMERCIAL YIELD

After 60 days from planting [dt/ha]:
After 75 days from planting [dt/ha]:
At the end of vegetation [dt/ha]: 346

COMMERCIAL YIELD AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL YIELD

After 60 days from planting [%]:
After 75 days from planting [%]:
At the end of vegetation [%]: 92

FERTILIZATION

Recommended nitrogen dose for early harvest [kg N/ha]:
Recommended nitrogen dose at the end of vegetation [kg N/ha]: 120

REQUIREMENTS

Soil:
Water: średnie

OTHER INFORMATION

Level of difficulty in seed production: łatwa
Number of tubers per plant [pcs]: 9.8
Number of stems [pcs/tuber 20g]: 3.0

GENERAL REMARKS

Research conducted in the years 2005-2006. Vegetation period 111-124 days. Flesh white to creamy. Tubers set deeply.

CONSUMER NOTES

December 2012 – creamy flesh, firm, not in the B-BC type, more in the AB type, does not darken after cooking, fairly good taste

Gallery

Variety Aruba – tubers
(photo by S. Wróbel)
Variety Aruba – sprouts
(photo by S. Wróbel)
Variety Aruba – flowers
(photo by S. Wróbel)