The Yona potato is an early maturing variety with red skin and yellow flesh, and an oval shape. It’s high-yielding and stores well. Yona has a firm texture and a slightly nutty flavor, making it ideal for boiling, baking, and frying.
Plant and Tuber Characteristics
- Foliage maturity: late
- Emergence: fairly fast
- Plant vigour: high
- Skin colour: red
- Flesh colour: pale yellow
- Tuber shape: long oval
- Shape uniformity: fairly good
- Eye depth: fairly shallow
- Tuber size: very large
- Tuber set: moderate
Resistances
- Resistance to foliage late blight: high
- Resistance to tuber late blight: fairly high
- Resistance to pitted common scab: fairly low
- Resistance to netted common scab: fairly low
- Resistance to pvy high Resistance to pvyntn: fairly high
- Resistance to pcn g.Rostochiensis (ro1-4): full
- Resistance to pcn g.Pallida (pa2-3): null
- Resistance to wart pathovar 1: full
- Resistance to early blight: moderate
Quality
- Yield: high
- Dry matter content: fairly high (20-22%)
- Cooking type: B-C
- Disintegration: slight
- After cooking darkening: very slight
- Frying colour at harvest: good
- Storage ability: high
