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TECHNICAL AND MARKETING GUIDE
Top performing marrowfat pea
Good agronomic characteristics
Well suited to lighter soils
Excellent canning properties
SUMMARY
Kahuna is a high yielding marrowfat pea and is the highest
yielding fully Recommended variety of its type on the NIAB/PGRO
Recommended List. It has a good combination of straw
characters and disease resistance for the marrowfat group.
Kahuna is ideally suited to a variety of human consumption
markets, having excellent canning properties and sample quality.
BREEDER AND AGENT
Breeder: Toft Plant Breeding, Denmark.
UK Agent: Nickerson.
STATUS
NIAB/PGRO Recommended List 2007
HIGH YIELD POTENTIAL
Kahuna has a high yield potential, 4% above Princess and
Samson. It is the highest yielding fully Recommended
marrowfat pea on the 2007 NIAB/PGRO Recommended
List of spring peas.
EXCELLENT AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS
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KAHUNA
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Princess
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Samson
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| Earliness of Ripening
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5 |
5 |
4 |
| Shortness of Straw
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5 |
5 |
5 |
| Standing Ability |
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| at Harvest |
5 |
5 |
3 |
Kahuna has a good combination of characters for a
marrowfat, being moderately tall and medium-early
to mature.
DISEASE RESISTANCE
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KAHUNA
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Princess
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Samson
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| RESISTANCE TO: |
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| Downy Mildew |
5 |
3 |
6 |
| Pea Wilt (race 1)
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R
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R
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R
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R = resistant; S = susceptible
Kahuna has moderately good resistance to downy mildew, in
line with other marrowfats, and is resistant to pea wilt.
GRAIN QUALITY
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KAHUNA
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Princess
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Samson
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| Thousand Seed |
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| Weight (gms) |
369
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336
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408
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| Protein Content %
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24.7
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24.6
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24.8
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Kahuna has an average thousand seed weight for a
marrowfat pea, in between Samson and Princess. Kahuna
has excellent canning qualities for the UK market and, as
with all marrowfats, samples with good colour retention will
attract the best prices; early harvesting is recommended.
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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