Quaggy Joe: A high-yielding, round, white potato variety for fresh market

The Quaggy Joe potato variety is high-yielding and medium to medium-late ma turing with attractive, round-oval, white-skinned, white-fleshed tubers wit h medium-shallow pink eyes. Its major use is expected to be as a maincrop t ablestock variety, Quaggy Joe is resistant to the potato leafroll virus, an d is also moderately resistant to early blight (Alternaria solani), dry rot (Fusarium sambucinum,), and soft rot (Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora ). Quaggy Joe tubers have shown very Little shatter or black-spot bruising, but sprout earlier than Atlantic. Young plants have shown sensitivity to t he herbicide metribuzin.