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Athos

Crop:
Squash
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Overview

Athos is a dark green cylindrical hybrid that has a large medium-strong open bush growth,dense medium foliage cover and upright growth habit. Athos produces uniform cylindrical, high quality, straight fruit with a shiny dark-green fruit colour and low number of speckles. Its fruit have a medium-short peduncle and small-neat blossom end scars. The fruits exhibit high yield potential and good shelf life. The variety is an improvement over Raven due to its virus and powdery mildew resistance.

Traits & characteristics

Traits & characteristics
Fruit Color Dark green shiny colour
Index of earliness Early
Pack size Length is 11- 21 cm. Diameter is 2.0 - 3.5 cm
Plant type Bush open plant with dense medium foliage cover having erect leaves
Plant vigour Medium-strong vigour
Shape Cylindrical, straight shape
Yield Very productive

Characteristics

Characteristics

Maturity

45 days

Resistance

Resistance

Disease Resistance

  • Target:
    CMV
    Rating:
    IR
  • Target:
    WMV
    Rating:
    IR
  • Target:
    ZYMV
    Rating:
    IR
  • Target:
    Gc
    Rating:
    IR
  • Target:
    Px
    Rating:
    IR

Downloads

Downloads
picture_as_pdf athos.pdf (2.17 MB) download

Athos

Crop:
Squash

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