Reza is a versatile and resilient potato variety ideal for both conventional and organic systems, offering deep yellow-fleshed tubers with high culinary quality and low discoloration. It's well-suited for fresh consumption, processing, and direct sales, combining high disease resistance, notable PCN spectrum resistance (Ro1–5), and high yield performance.
Notable Traits:
- Deep yellow flesh
- High yield potential
- Broad resistance to PCN (Ro 1–5) and wart (Pathotype 1)
- Excellent table and frying quality
Plant Characteristics
- Maturity: Medium early
- Plant type: Intermediate
- Growth habit: Upright
- Flower color: Light red-violet
- Foliage development: Rapid
- Number of tubers: Medium
- Dormancy: Medium
Tuber Characteristics
- Shape: Oval to long oval
- Flesh color: Deep yellow
- Eye depth: Shallow
- Skin color: Red
- Skin texture: Smooth
Resistances
- Nematodes: Resistant to Ro 1–Ro 5 (wide-spectrum PCN resistance)
- Wart disease: Resistant to Pathotype 1
- Late blight (leaf & tuber): Very high resistance
- Rhizoctonia: Medium
- Black leg: Medium
- Common scab: Medium to high
- Internal rust spot: Medium to high
- Second growth: Medium
- Silver scurf: Medium
- Mechanical damage: Low
- Bruising: Low to medium
- PVY: Medium to high
- PVY NTN: Medium
Yield and Quality
- Market outlets: Table (ware), Direct marketing, Pre-packing French fries, Organic Peeling
- Yield: High
- Share oversize: Medium
- Share undersize: Medium
- Cooking type: Fairly firm
- After cooking discoloration: Low
- Discoloration raw: Low
- Dry matter content: Medium
