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Premiere

Premiere is widely used for early french fries and chip production.

With oval tubers, yellow skin and pale yellow flesh, it has established itself within the processing and chipping markets for its ease of preparation (shallow eyes allowing for easy peeling). It’s regular tuber shape also makes it straight forward for grading, washing and packing.

Premiere delivers excellent pack out yields, overcoming years when poorer tuber numbers prevail. As an early variety one of Premiere’s greatest strengths is its ability to develop good dry matters sufficiently early, to meet demand from processors for new season crop. Premiere has a proven record for early cultivation and harvest.

  • Market outlet: chipping, processing & organic
  • Maturity: early maincrop
  • Storage: low dormancy

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Suggested fertiliser treatment
Nitrogen: standard advice.
Potassium : standard advice +10%.
Phosphate: standard advice.

Storage
Premiere is not suitable for long term storage.

Premiere characteristics

Plant and tuber

  • Maturity
    Second early | 7
  • Tuber shape
    Oval round
  • Flesh Colour
    Light yellow | 6
  • 5 low | 9 high
    Tuber number
    Quite high | 7
  • 5 small | 8 large
    Tuber size
    Medium | 6,5
  • Skin colour
    Yellow
  • Flower colour
    White
  • 4 none | 8 many
    No. of berries
    None | 4
  • 4 slow | 8 fast
    Foliage: - initial development
    Average | 7
  • 4 slow | 8 fast
    Foliage: - final development
    Average | 7
  • Foliage: - selectability
    Average | 6,5
  • 4 weak | 8 firm
    Foliage: - firmness
    Average | 6
  • Lightsprout colour
    Red violet
  • 4 irregular | 8 regular
    Uniformity of shape
    Regular | 7
  • 5 irregular | 8 regular
    Uniformity of size
    Quite regular | 6
  • 3 insufficient | 8 excellent
    Skin finish
    Quite good | 6

Quality characteristics

  • 6 average | 9 high
    Average yield
    Quite high | 7
  • 300 low | 500 high
    Underwater weight
    416
  • A firm | AB rather firm | B rather floury | BC floury | C floury
    Cooking type
    Floury | BC
  • 4 short | 8 long
    Dormancy
    Short | 4
  • Resistance to harvest damage
    Quite sensitive | 6
  • 3 very sensitive | 8 minimum tot none sensitive
    Metribuzin
    Sensitive | 5
  • 3 very sensitive | 8 minimum tot none sensitive
    Bentazon
    Quite sensitive | 6
  • 4 poor result | 8 good result
    Ethylene
    -
  • 4 very sensitive | 8 minimum to none sensitive
    Secondary growth
    Minimum sensitive | 7
  • 4 very sensitive | 8 minimum to none sensitive
    Growth cracks
    Quite sensitive | 6
  • 4 very sensitive | 8 minimum to none sensitive
    Black spot
    Quite sensitive | 6
  • 17% low | 26,5% high
    Dry matter content
    22%
  • 5 moderate | 8 excellent
    Dry matter distribution
    Good | 7,5
  • 1 very low | 11 quite high
    TGA level
    2,8
  • 4 very sensitive | 8 minimum to none sensitive
    Raw discolouration
    Sensitive | 5,5
  • 4 very sensitive | 8 minimum to none sensitive
    Discolouration after cooking
    Quite sensitive | 6,5
  • 4 unsuitable | 8 excellent
    Suitable for chipping
    Average | 6
  • 4 unsuitable | 8 excellent
    Suitable for crisping
    Quite difficult | 5

Disease resistances

  • Late blight foliage
    Very susceptible | 4
  • Late blight tuber
    Minimum susceptible | 6
  • Common scab
    Susceptible | 5
  • PCN Ro 1/4
    Resistant | 9
  • PCN Ro 2/3
    Susceptible | 1
  • PCN Pa 2 Pallida
    Susceptible | 1
  • PCN Pa 3 Pallida
    Susceptible | 1
  • Powdery scab
    Susceptible | 5
  • Fusarium
    Susceptible | 5
  • Blackleg
    Susceptible | 5
  • Black dot
    -
  • Spraing
    Minimum to non susceptible | 8
  • Leafroll
    Minimum susceptible | 6
  • Virus - A
    Minimum to non susceptible | 9
  • Virus - X
    Minimum to non susceptible | 8
  • Virus - Yn
    Minimum susceptible | 6
  • Virus - Yntn (tuber symptoms)
    Minimum to non susceptible | 8
  • Wart disease F1
    Resistant | 10
  • Wart disease F6
    Very susceptible | 4
  • Wart disease F18
    -
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