ALASKA GOLD

Alaska Gold is an exciting new yellow skin, yellow fleshed variety for the fresh market. It produces very high yields of round-to-round oval tubers with smooth skin and shallow eyes. This second early variety has good heat and drought tolerance and also good resistance to common scab.

Tuber Characteristics
 

• Tuber Shape: round oval
• Flesh Color: pale yellow
• Eye Depth: shallow
• Skin Color: light yellow
• Skin Texture: very-smooth
• Dormancy: very good
• Tuber Size: fairly large

Yield and Quality
 

• Markets: Table/Fresh, Heat And Drought Tolerant, Organic
• Yield: very high
• Tubers Per Plant: 11-13
• Cooking Type: A/B
• Dry Matter: 19.5%

Resistances
 

• Scab: high
• PVY: medium-high
• Foliage Blight: medium
• Tuber Blight: medium-high
• Damages: high
• Bruising: high
• Nematodes: -

Remarks
 

• Good heat and drought tolerance
• Good storability