The Amora potato variety is a high-performing, early-maturing cultivar from the Netherlands. It delivers consistent yields of uniformly shaped, yellow-fleshed tubers. With its firm yet balanced texture and strong suitability for French fry and processing markets, Amora plays a significant role in industrial production—especially notable in Belgium’s early fry sector.
It handles disease pressures reasonably well and offers specific strengths like resistance to splitting and certain nematodes, making it a robust choice for growers targeting processing quality.
Characteristics
- Skin colour: Yellow
- Flesh colour: Yellow
- Fries quality: Excellent / 2.0
- Tuber shape: Oval to round
- Tubers per plant: 9 – 11
- Maturity: Early
- Dormancy: Short
- Berries: Average
- Cooking type: BC (fairly firm)
- Average tuber length: 74 mm
- Washability: Good
- Underwater weight: 385 – 425 g
- Dry matter %: 21 – 23 %
Sensitivity
- Bruising: Sensitive
- Mechanical damage: Quite sensitive
- Growth cracks: Slightly sensitive
- Secondary growth: Slightly sensitive
- Sencor (Metribuzin): Slightly sensitive
- Drought: Not sensitive
- Hollow hearts: Slightly sensitive
Resistances
- Y virus: Slightly susceptible
- Yntn virus: Slightly susceptible
- Spraing: Slightly susceptible
- Tuber blight: Slightly susceptible
- Foliage blight: Quite susceptible
- Fusarium: Slightly susceptible
- Common scab: Slightly susceptible
- Wart disease F1: Not susceptible (score 10)
- Wart disease F2: Slightly susceptible (score 6-)
- Wart disease F6: Resistant (score 9-)
- Wart disease F18: -- (no data)
- PCN Ro1: Resistant
- PCN Ro2/3: Slightly susceptible
- PCN Pa2: Slightly susceptible
- PCN Pa3: Slightly susceptible
- Silver scurf: Slightly susceptible
- Early blight: Slightly susceptible
- Leaf roll: Slightly susceptible
