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Varieties bred by
Northern Ireland Horticulture and Plant Breeding Station
| Manor House Loughgall, Count Armagh, GBR BT61 8JB | |
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| Variety | Marketing qualities |
| Carlingford | Significantly higher yielding and even sized tubers compared with Maris Peer. Firm/waxy texture with freedom from after cooking blackening. Grows well under polythene for early salad production. Good common scab, PVY and skin spot resistance. |
| Sunset | Tubers have some resistance to splitting and excellent resistance to bruising. Trials have found good resistance to black scurf, dry rot, late blight on foliage and skin spot... Tests for resistance to potato cyst eelworm demonstrated resistance to Globodera rostochiensis Ro1 and susceptibility to Globodera pallida Pa 2/3, 1. |