Nitouche

Technical & Marketing Guide

NITOUCHE is a very popular large blue pea variety. The combination of consistent performance, good agronomic characters and suitability for premium markets all contributing to its success. Nitouche produces a large, smooth, round pea which is suitable for the human consumption market both in the UK and for export. In addition it retains its colour well, making it popular for micronising. Nitouche has long straw with good standing ability making it easy to harvest, whilst its high level of resistance to downy mildew helps to reduce input costs.

BREEDER: DLF Trifolium, Denmark
AGENT: Nickerson
STATUS: PGRO Recommended List 2009

CONSISTENT YIELD PERFORMANCE
 NITOUCHEVenture
YIELD (%  control)9497

Nitouche has shown a consistent level of performance in official trials over many years.

CONSISTENT YIELD PERFORMANCE 2003 - 2007
YIELD (% mean of untreated controls)NITOUCHEVenture
 200797 96 
200697100
200594102
20049293
20039499

 

EXCELLENT AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS
 NITOUCHEVenture
Earliness of Ripening55
Shortness of Straw45
Standing Ability at Harvest76

Nitouche has a sound combination of agronomic characters being moderately tall with very good standing power. It is also moderately early to ripen.

GOOD DOWNY MILDEW RESISTANCE
Resistance to:NITOUCHEVenture
Downy Mildew
8
8
Pea Wilt (Race 1)*SR

R = Resistant; S = Susceptible

Nitouche has good resistance to downy mildew and is unlikely to need a specific seed dressing in most situations. Nitouche is susceptible to pea wilt.

 

GRAIN QUALITY AND MARKETING
 NITOUCHEVenture
Thousand Seed Weight (g)291255
Protein Content %24.222.6

Nitouche is a true large blue pea with a high thousand seed weight producing a bold sample (suitable for domestic and export markets)
with good colour retention (attractive for micronising) and providing great flexibilty in market outlets. Nitouche has one of the highest protein contents of the large blues on the Recommended List.


All data is from the PGRO Recommended List of spring peas, available at www.pgro.org 

A high figure indicates that the variety shows the character to a high degree. 

Limagrain UK Ltd, Rothwell, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, LN7 6DT    Tel: 01472 371471