The British Potato Variety Database

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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.