Valetta is a very early, high yielding table potato with cooking type AB. This variety shows attractive tubers and excellent culinary qualities. It has long, oval tubers, smooth yellow skin and very shallow eyes. Valetta has high tolerances to common scab, rhizoctonia, spraying, bruising and mechanical damages.
Plant Characteristics
- Maturity: Very early
- Plant Type: Intermediate
- Growth Habit: Semi-upright
- Flower Color: Red-violet
- Foliage Development: Very rapid
- Number of Tubers: Medium
- Dormancy: Medium to high
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Long oval
- Flesh Color: Yellow
- Eye Depth: Shallow
- Skin Color: Yellow
- Skin Texture: Netted
Resistance Profile
- Nematodes: Resistant to Ro 1 and Ro 4
- Leaf Blight: Low to medium resistance
- Tuber Blight: Medium to high resistance
- Rhizoctonia: High resistance
- Black Leg: High resistance
- Common Scab: High resistance
- Internal Rust Spot: High resistance
- Mechanical Damages: Medium to high susceptibility
- Bruising: High to very high susceptibility
- PVY (Potato Virus Y): Low resistance
- PLRV (Potato Leaf Roll Virus): Low to medium resistance
Yield and Quality
- Market Outlet: Ware potatoes, Direct marketing
- Yield: High
- Share of Oversize Tubers: Medium to high
- Share of Undersize Tubers: Low
- Cooking Type: Firm cooking
- After-Cooking Discoloration: Low
- Discoloration (Raw): Low
- Dry Matter Content: Low
