Nationally Listed

The first two varieties to be accepted onto the U.K. National List were Sarpo Mira and Axona. These are both high yielding, red-skinned, maincrop varieties with high dry matter.  Both cultivars have weed-smothering foliage and long dormancy even in ambient stores.  Both benefit from chitting to advance maturity, particularly if they have been cold stored.  Sárpo Mira makes attractive chips (French fries) and Axona makes excellent flavoured mash.

As of June, 2009, four new varieties have been awarded National List status in U.K.

Sárpo Una This second early has good foliage-blight resistance for an early variety and excellent tuber blight resistance. Tubers are rose-pink  with a good skin finish.  Flesh is white in colour and low in dry matter making it useful for boiling, gratin and as a salad.  If left to mature, it yields heavy crops of long-oval tubers, useful as early bakers. Trials have found good resistance to powdery scab, potato virus Yo, dry rot (F. sulphureum), black dot, silver scurf and skin spot.

Sárpo Shona is a blight resistant and virus Yo resistant, white-skinned variety with early-maincrop maturity.  The short foliage is dense and weed-smothering. Tubers are short oval and can be prepared in most ways due to their medium dry matter content.  Independent Variety Trials show tubers to have good resistance to black dot and black scurf.

Kifli is a long, white-skinned variety with outstanding flavour when prepared as a freshly harvested, loose-skinned potato. Plants show medium resistance to late-blight and high resistance to virus Yo.  Kifli is best planted early as it is a slow starter.  Maturity is early maincrop.  The crop can be harvested gradually over a long period as larger, more mature tubers still have excellent flavour. Kifli has good resistance to splitting and bruising, to blackleg and to PCN Ro1.

Blue Danube is a plant with purple-black stems, shiny dark foliage and spectacular blue-skinned tubers of good shape and skin finish. It is an early maincrop with medium foliage-blight resistance and good tuber-blight resistance.  It has good resistance to virus Yo and to leafroll virus, blackleg, dry rot (F. coeruleum) and PCN Ro1. Flesh is white and of medium dry matter content.  Growers experimenting with this variety always want more - it is developing cult-status.

 

Seed of our nationally listed varieties is likely to be in short supply for the next few years as stocks of high-grade seed are multiplied. 

To order, please contact:

Sarvari Research Trust
Henfaes Research Centre
Abergwyngregyn
Llanfairfechan
LL33 0LB
U.K.

Phone: +44 (0) 1248 689 156.
Mobile: +44 (0) 7906 710 704.