AC Maple Gold

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GENERAL

• Origin & Breeding: bred from the cross (Conestoga x FL1133) made in 1984 at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Potato Research Center in Fredericton, New Brunswick and selected by the Lethbridge Research Center, Alberta.
• Year registered in Canada: 2000
• Registration number: 5150
• Maturity: mid-season

BOTANICAL FEATURES

• Plants: medium, semi-erect growth; stems medium thick, not pigmented; prominent straight single wings; nodes moderately swollen.
• Leaves: dark green, mid-open, pubescent; petioles and midribs not pigmented.
  Terminal leaflets: medium ovate; tip acuminate; base truncate and asymmetrical.
  Primary leaflets: three pairs; medium ovate; tip acuminate, base truncate and asymmetrical.
• Flowers: numerous; white corolla with very prominent star; orange anthers; flower buds persistent, highly pigmented; high berry production.
• Tubers: oval, uniform; smooth light yellow skin; shallow eyes, evenly distributed; eyebrows not prominent; medium yellow flesh.
• Sprouts: ovoid; base weakly pubescent with very strong red-violet pigmentation; apex strongly pubescent, green.

AGRICULTURAL FEATURES

High yielding variety with medium number of tubers per plant. This variety should be grown with an in-row spacing of 30 cm. High specific gravity. Medium dormancy period. Good storability.

REMARK: can be harvested early (80 days after planting) or stored for long periods of time without suffering deterioration in processing quality.

• Utilization: this variety was developed especially for french fry manufacture but it is also suitable for the fresh market; it has low after cooking discolouration and low boiling sloughing.
• Chief Markets: french fry, fresh market.

REACTION TO DISEASES

Resistant: fusarium wilt.
Moderately resistant: early blight.
Moderately susceptible: late blight, common scab.
Susceptible: verticillium wilt.

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