Laura is a mid-season-ripening, firm-fleshed, edible
potato
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Wild potato species can be found from the southern United ...
. The Laura potato is red-skinned with a rich potato-yellow flesh color and an oval shape. It was first recognised in 1998 in
Austria
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. The depth of the eyes is between flat and very flat.
The potato is robustly resistant to damage and is highly resistant to
scab,
leafroll virus and potato viruses
A and
Y. However, it is susceptible to
potato wart
''Synchytrium endobioticum'' is a chytrid fungus that causes the potato wart disease, or black scab. It also infects some other plants of the genus ''Solanum'', though potato is the only cultivated host.
Systematics
Traditionally, ''Synchytriu ...
and
cyst nematodes.
Some authorities advise against the use of any
herbicide
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containing at any stage.
External links
Sortendatenblatt Europlant(PDF-File: 109 kB)]
References
{{Potato cultivars
Potato cultivars