The Majestic potato is an early maincrop variety with long oval tubers, white skin, and white flesh. It has shallow to medium eye depth and smooth to intermediate skin texture. Known for its floury texture, it's ideal for mashing, roasting, and baking.
Tuber Characteristics:
- Skin Color: White to yellow
- Eye Color: Yellow
- Primary Flesh Color: White to cream
- Shape: Oval to long
- Eye Depth: Shallow to medium
- Skin Texture: Smooth to intermediate
Tubering Characteristics:
- Yield Potential: Medium to high
- Early Harvest Yield: Medium
- Tubers per Plant: Few to medium to many
- Tuber Size: Large to very large
- Shape Uniformity: Medium to uniform
- Secondary Growth: Very high
- Internal Rust Spot: Infrequent
- Resistance to External Damage: Moderate to resistant
- Resistance to Internal Bruising: High to very high
- Dormancy Period: Medium to long
Utilization Characteristics:
- Cooking Type/Texture: Mealy (floury) to fairly firm (multi-purpose)
- After Cooking Blackening: Severe to little/some
- Taste: Good
- Crisp Suitability: Poor
- French Fry Suitability: Poor
- Dry Matter Content: Medium
- Starch Content: Medium
Resistances
- Late Blight on Tubers: High
- Late Blight on Foliage: Low
- Late Blight on Tubers (Lab Test): Low to medium
- Late Blight on Foliage (Lab Test): Low to medium
- Dry Rot (Fusarium coeruleum): Medium
- Powdery Scab (Spongospora subterranea): High
- Wart (Synchytrium endobioticum): Field immune (Race 1)
- Gangrene (Phoma foveata): Low
- Dry Rot (Fusarium spp.): Medium
- Common Scab (Streptomyces scabies): Very low to low
- Blackleg (Erwinia spp.): Low
- Potato Virus A: Low
- Potato Virus X: Low
- Potato Virus Y: Low to medium
- Potato Leaf Roll Virus: Medium to high
- Tobacco Rattle Virus: Low to medium to high