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Fontane
A high-yielding Dutch processing potato for French fries and flakes, released in 1999 and marketed by Agrico. It has yellow skin, light yellow flesh and a high dry matter of about 23 %, and cooks floury.
Origin and use
The WUR Potato Pedigree Database gives Fontane's cross as Agria x AR 76-34-3, its breeder as Svalöf Weibull BV and its year as 1999. Agrico says the cross was made in the 1980s at Agrico Research.
Agrico describes it as an early maincrop processing variety, mainly for French fries and flakes and also suitable for crisps. Its sheet gives oval tubers, quite large, with yellow skin and light yellow flesh, a dry matter of 23.2 %, cooking type "floury / BC" and an "excellent" fries quality.
