Kalkaska: A Round White Chip-Processing Potato Variety with Common Scab Resistance

Kalkaska is a high yielding, round white potato with an attractive appearance with shallow eyes. Kalkaska has a vigorous vine and a late maturity. This variety has resistance to Streptomyces scabies Thaxter (common scab of potato) similar to Pike. Kalkaska has industry approved chip-processing storage characteristics (light color and low incidence of defects) and it also has better tolerance to blackspot bruise than Snowden. Specific gravity in Michigan averages 1.083, ranging from 1.075 to 1.096. Kalkaska also has a higher marketable yield than Pike and does not express heat necrosis in the tubers. The name Kalkaska was chosen to acknowledge a town located in the Michigan seed growing region.