Features
- Processing
- Large tubers
- High dry matter content
- Suitable for different types of soil
Plant and tuber
- Maturity: Early maincrop
- Tuber shape: Oval
- Flesh Colour: Light Yellow
- Tuber size: Quite Large
- Skin colour: Yellow
- Flower colour: White
FONTANE
Potato Variety Information
Variety Description
Fontane is an early maincrop high-yielding processing variety for the production of French fries and flakes. The variety's great success is due to its reliably high yield in cultivation – for both consumer and seed potato growers – and its excellent returns in the fries sector.
Features
Plant and tuber
Features
Plant and tuber
Origin and Breeding History
Pizza isn't the first thing you think of when it comes to potatoes. Yet the name Fontane has something to do with pizza. The grower, Eerke Pot van Lantmännen Seed B.V., is very fond of a pizzeria called Fontana.
Because the name was not initially approved, they decided to change one letter and arrived at the name Fontane. The Fontane variety is intended for the processing industry and is Agrico’s largest monopoly variety.
The crossing from which Fontane originated was made in 1986 at Agrico Research. The parents varieties, Agria and AR 76-34-3, have already individually been the source of many different offspring brought onto the market.
Because the name was not initially approved, they decided to change one letter and arrived at the name Fontane. The Fontane variety is intended for the processing industry and is Agrico’s largest monopoly variety.
The crossing from which Fontane originated was made in 1986 at Agrico Research. The parents varieties, Agria and AR 76-34-3, have already individually been the source of many different offspring brought onto the market.
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News for this Potato Variety
oktober 28, 2019
Danespo Holland: 'Niemand is echt 100 procent tevreden met het ras dat ze telen of verwerken.'
Peter van Eerdt, Danespo Holland, Berltsum: 'Niemand is echt 100 procent tevreden met het aardappelras dat ze telen of verwerken.'
oktober 26, 2019
Agrico Research: 'Zodra een fritesfabrikant een ras accepteert als een grondstof, gaat het ook meteen heel hard.'
Sjefke Allefs, Agrico Research, Bant: 'Zodra een fritesfabrikant een ras accepteert als een grondstof, gaat het ook meteen heel hard.'
mei 10, 2019
Blending potato varieties on the rise
Since the humble precursor to modern potato first domesticated in Peru 10,000 years ago, the tuber has branched off into thousands of different varieties.
mei 06, 2019
Fraude met NAK-pootgoedcertificaten heeft vergaande consequenties
Nadat de eerste signalen binnenkwamen dat er vervalste NAK-pootgoedcertificaten in omloop waren in Nederland en België, is het Breeders Trust in samenwerking met de NAK in korte tijd gelukt om de daders op te sporen en bij hen een bekentenis af te dwingen Sponsored Content
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