Lorimer

Parentage: Olympus x 98-HIG-16.4

Characteristics

  • Parentage: Olympus x 98-HIG-16.4

  • Maturity: Early Maincrop

  • Tuber Shape: Round Oval

  • Tuber Skin: White

  • Tuber Flesh: Cream

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Lorimer

Resistances

Splitting
Bruising
Silver Scurf
Dry Rot (F. sulphureum)
Dry Rot (F. coeruleum)
Black Dot
Skin Spot
Potato Virus Y
Potato Leafroll Virus
PCN (G. Rostoch Ro1)
PCN (G. Pallida Pa 2/3, 1)
Powdery Scab
Common Scab
Blackleg
Tuber Blight
Foliage Blight

Agronomic Features

Lorimer produces high yields from reduced input levels. Lorimer has resistance to PCN G. rostochiensis as well as bruising and external damage. Lorimer shows  excellent resistance to Skin spot and Spraing as well as most skin blemish diseases.

Crop Quality

Lorimer is an earlymaincrop variety with excellent processing characteristics, round-oval tubers with shallow eyes ideally suited for crisping. Suitable for low temperature, long-term storage with low reducing sugar accumulations and acrylamide formation.

 Sucrose %Glucose %Dry MatterMarketable %
Lionheart0.0190.00920.990.2
Markies0.0860.00919.883.5
Pentland Dell0.0960.01221.384.7
Maris Piper0.1050.02622.093.7