Vales Sovereign is a late-maturing, erect-growing potato variety with pink sprouts and smooth, long-oval tubers featuring red eyes and part-red skin with cream-colored flesh. It shows medium to high resistance to internal bruising and blackleg, and high resistance to Globodera rostochiensis race 1. While field-immune to wart disease, it has low resistance to late blight on tubers and powdery scab. Minimal after-cooking blackening makes it suitable for culinary use.
Plant Characteristics
- Maturity: Late
- Growth Habit: Erect
- Flower Frequency: No flowers
- Light Sprout Colour: Pink
Tuber Characteristics
- Skin Colour: Part red
- Eye Colour: Red
- Flesh Colour: Cream
- Shape: Long to oval
- Eye Depth: Shallow
- Skin Texture: Smooth
Resistance to Fungal Diseases
- Late Blight on Tubers (Lab Test): Low
- Late Blight on Foliage (Field): Low to medium
- Late Blight on Foliage (Lab Test): Medium to high
- Powdery Scab (Spongospora subterranea): Low
- Wart (Synchytrium endobioticum): Field immune
- Gangrene (Phoma foveata): Medium
Resistance to Bacterial Diseases
- Common Scab (Streptomyces scabies): Medium
- Blackleg (Erwinia spp.): High to very high
- Potato Virus Y: Low to medium
- Potato Leaf Roll Virus: Very low to low
Resistance to Pests
- Globodera rostochiensis Race 1: Very high
- Globodera pallida Race 2: Very low to low
- Globodera pallida Race 3: Very low to low
