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TECHNICAL AND MARKETING GUIDE
Market leading marrowfat pea
Good agronomic characteristics
Excellent canning properties
SUMMARY
Kabuki is a semi-leafless marrowfat pea with moderate yield
potential, good agronomic characters and excellent grain
quality. The variety has good grain colour retention and is
widely accepted in the human consumption market.
BREEDER AND AGENT
Breeder: Toft Plant Breeding, Denmark.
UK Agent: Nickerson.
STATUS
Common catalogue
YIELD POTENTIAL
Kabuki has a moderate yield potential, 96% of the control mean.
GOOD AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS
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KABUKI
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Samson
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Kahuna
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| Earliness of Ripening
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| (1-9, 9 = early) |
5 |
5 |
5 |
| Straw Length (cms)
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73 |
69 |
71 |
| Lodging |
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| (1-9, 1 = standing)
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6 |
6 |
5 |
| RESISTANCE TO: |
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| Downy Mildew 5 6 5
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5 |
6 |
5 |
| Pea Wilt (race 1)
R R R |
R
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R
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R
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R = resistant; S = susceptible
Kabuki has very similar agronomic characteristics to the
other marrowfat type varieties with similar ratings for
maturity, straw characters and disease resistance to Samson
and Kahuna.
GRAIN QUALITY
In trials, Kabuki has given a thousand seed weight of
410 - 450 gms placing it at the higher end of the marrowfat
group for this character.
Kabuki is accepted in the human consumption markets for
canning and packet sales with a reputation for good grain
colour retention.
All information is a partial extraction from the Nickersons website
and also the HGCA Recommended List 2007/8. See http://www.nickersonuk.com/
and also www.hgca.com for
the full dataset
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