Ajax is a semi-erect, intermediate maturity variety with good foliage cover and white flowers. It is well-suited for multi-purpose cooking due to its tuber quality, resistance traits, and drought tolerance.
Tuber Characteristics:
- Skin Colour: White to yellow
- Flesh Colour: Yellow
- Shape: Oval with shallow to medium eyes
- Size: Large
- Shape Uniformity: Medium to uniform
- Yield Potential: Medium to very high
- Tubers per Plant: Medium to many
- Secondary Growth: Low to medium
- Hollow Heart Tendency: Very low
- Internal Rust Spot: Infrequent
- Dormancy Period: Medium to long
- Resistance to Damage: High resistance to external damage and very high resistance to internal bruising
Resistances:
- Late blight (tubers): Medium to high
- Late blight (foliage): Medium
- Wart (Synchytrium endobioticum): Field immune (Race 1)
- Common scab: Medium
- Potato virus A: Low
- Potato virus X: Low to medium
- Potato virus Y: High
- Potato leaf roll virus: High