PIKE - A FULL SEASON SCAB AND GOLDEN NEMATODE RESISTANT CHIPSTOCK VARIETY

Pike is a chipstock variety released jointly by the Cornell and Pennsy lvania Experiment Stations in March 1996. Pike has a specific gravity comparable to Atlantic and the ability to produce light-colored chips after 7 C storage. Most of the chip color data were taken in December, January, and February. It has scab resistance comparable to that of S uperior and is golden nematode resistant. It is a full season variety, somewhat earlier than Snowden. In 23 trials in New York, internal nec rosis and hollow heart of Pike was 5% compared to 18% for Atlantic. Wh en grown at high temperatures, Pike is susceptible to a unique express ion of heat necrosis that is net-like in appearance which is different from the internal brown spot of Atlantic. The yield has been about 95 % of the yield of Atlantic.