Bintje

Potato Bintje
Bintje potatoes
Genussolanum
SpeciesSolanum tuberosum
Hybrid parentageMunstersen x Fransen
CultivarBintje
BreederK.L. de Vries, 1904
OriginNetherlands
Plant and flower of the variety Bintje

Bintje /ˈbɪntʃə/ is a middle-early ripening potato variety bred in the Netherlands by the Frisian schoolmaster K.L. de Vries in 1904 from (Munstersen x Fransen) and marketed for the first time in 1910.[1] The name of the potato, a diminutive of Benedict, was borrowed from one of his former students.[2]

Bintje plants are medium-sized and erect, with purplish stems, dark green leaves and white flowers.

Bintje produces large oval-shaped tubers with pale yellow skin and yellow flesh. It has shallow eyes. The sprouts are purplish.

This high-yielding variety is widely grown in Europe and North Africa. It is used for boiling, baking, and for fries, mashed potato and potato chips. It is the most widely cultivated potato in France and Belgium.

Bintje is immune to potato virus A. It has moderate resistance to potato leafroll virus. It is susceptible to netted scab,[3] common scab,[3] Fusarium dry rot (Fusarium oxysporum), potato wart (Synchytrium endobioticum), potato virus X, potato virus Y, and late blight (Phytophthora infestans). Bintje is sterile, which prevents improvements in disease resistance through breeding. A mechanism to overcome sterility has recently allowed for breeding-based genetic improvements in disease resistance and potato tuber coloration.[4]

It was voted "potato of the year 2012".[5]

  1. ^ Walker, Thomas S. "Patterns and Implications of Varietal Change in Potatoes". Social Sciences Working Paper (1994–3): 28–29. ISSN 0256-8748. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  2. ^ "Bintje (aardappelsoort (ras van Solanum tuberosum))" [Bintje (potato variety (cultivar of Solanum tuberosum))]. Etymologiebank (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  3. ^ a b Bouchek-Mechiche, K.; Gardan, L.; Normand, P.; Jouan, B. (1 January 2000). "DNA relatedness among strains of Streptomyces pathogenic to potato in France: description of three new species, S. europaeiscabiei sp. nov. and S. stelliscabiei sp. nov. associated with common scab, and S. reticuliscabiei sp. nov. associated with netted scab". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 50 (1): 91–9. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-1-91. PMID 10826791. Retrieved 22 July 2014.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Jones, Richard; Perez, Frances (2016). "A cellulose binding domain protein restores female fertility when expressed in transgenic Bintje potato". BMC Research Notes. 9 (1): 176. doi:10.1186/s13104-016-1978-6. PMC 4797225. PMID 26992694.
  5. ^ "Nicola is the "potato of the year" 2016". freshplaza.com. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2017.