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Alouette

An early maincrop, versatile, red skin ware variety with late blight resistance in foliage and tuber, suitable for conventional and organic production.

  • Excellent eating characteristics
  • Blight resistant
  • Suitable for conventional and organic production
Variety Catalogue Cultivation recommendation
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Plant and tuber characteristics

  • Maturity
    early maincrop / 6
  • Light sprout colour
    red violet / RV
  • Flower colour
    light purple / LP
  • Number of berries
    very high / 4
  • Foliage - initial development
    fast / 8
  • Foliage - final development
    good / 8
  • Foliage - firmness
    quite firm / 7,5
  • Foliage - selectability
    average / 6
  • Skin colour
    red / R
  • Flesh colour
    yellow / 7,5
  • Skin finish
    good / 7
  • Tuber shape
    oval long / OL
  • Regularity of tuber shape
    regular / 7
  • Tuberisation
    average / 6
  • Tuber size
    quite large / 7
  • Regularity of size
    quite regular / 6,5
  • Dormancy
    average / 6

Sensitivity and quality

  • Secondary growth
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Black spot (internal bruising)
    slightly to not sensitive / 8
  • Growth cracks
    quite sensitive / 6,5
  • Harvest damage
    quite sensitive / 6
  • Metribuzin - pre-emergence
    slightly sensitive / 7,5
  • Metribuzin - post-emergence
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Bentazon
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Ethylene
    5% fewer tubers / 4
  • Underwater weight
    389
  • Dry matter content
    21,1%
  • Cooking type
    rather firm / AB
  • Discolouration after cooking
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Raw discolouration
    slightly sensitive / 7
  • Fries quality
    above average / 6,5
  • Dry matter distribution
    - / -
  • Crisping quality
    - / -
  • TGA-level
    3,6
  • Carvone oil
    5% to 15% more tubers / 6
  • Dormancy
    average / 6
  • Mutation rate
    This variety may exhibit a high mutation rate. Therefore, the use of carvone oil is discouraged. / Use of carvone oil can provoke mutations.

Resistances

  • Virus - Leaf roll
    - / -
  • Virus - Yn
    slightly to not susceptible / 8
  • Virus - Yntn (tuber)
    slightly susceptible / 7
  • Spraing
    susceptible / 5,5
  • Late blight - foliage
    slightly to not susceptible / 9
  • Late blight - tuber
    slightly to not susceptible / 9
  • Fusarium
    slightly susceptible / 7,5
  • Common scab
    slightly susceptible / 6
  • Powdery scab
    slightly susceptible / 6,5
  • Virus - A
    - / -
  • Virus - X
    slightly susceptible / 7
  • Black dot
    - / -
  • Erwinia
    - / -
  • Wart disease F1
    resistant / 10
  • Wart disease F6
    - / -
  • Wart disease F18
    - / -
  • Golden nematode Ro 1/4
    resistant / 9
  • Golden nematode Ro 2/3
    field resistant / 8
  • R_Golden nematode Ro 5
    moderately susceptible* / 6*
  • White nematode Pa 2
    - / -
  • White nematode Pa 3
    - / -