Potato VERSHININSKII

The potato variety 'Vershininский' is a mid-early maturing type with a ripening period of 80-90 days, suitable for various culinary preparations including frying, baking, making mashed potatoes, and chip production. The tubers are oval-shaped with small eyes, featuring smooth yellow skin and creamy flesh. The weight of marketable tubers ranges from 85 to 131 grams, with starch content between 14.2% and 19.7%, ensuring good taste and high consumer quality. Marketable tuber yield reaches 75-94%, and storability is 92%, indicating good harvest preservation during storage.

Plants of the 'Vershininский' variety have medium height and upright stem type. Leaves are medium-sized, closed, green in color with moderate leaf margin waviness, and the flower is large and white. The number of tubers per plant ranges from 7 to 10. The yield of this variety is at the level of the 'Nevsky' standard, ranging from 144 to 202 centners per hectare, with maximum yield reaching 247 centners per hectare, which is 38 centners higher than the standard.

The variety exhibits resistance to potato late blight pathogen and golden potato cyst nematode, as well as moderate susceptibility to phytophthora on foliage and tubers. Preferred growing regions include the Central and Volga regions. The developer of the variety is LLC 'ETK Merisystemic Cultures', and the patent holder is B.M. Vershinin. Due to its characteristics and resistance, the 'Vershininский' variety is a reliable choice for agricultural production and industrial processing.