Zero4 small blue combining pea has short straw, excellent standing ability and very early maturity

Technical and Marketing Guide
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ZERO4 is a small blue combining pea with a unique combination of agronomic characters: short straw, excellent standing ability and very early maturity. When sown at its optimum seed rate it has a similar yield potential to Nitouche.  Zero4 is suitable for animal feed and micronising outlets with smaller sized samples likely to be acceptable to the pigeon trade.

BREEDER: Toft Plant Breeding, Denmark
AGENT: Limagrain UK 
STATUS: National Listed 

HIGH YIELD POTENTIAL
  ZERO4 70 ZERO4 90 ZERO4 110  Nitouche 70
SEED RATE TRIALS Yield (% site mean) 92 99 103  104
Zero4 requires a higher seed rate than other varieties such as Nitouche. When sown at its optimum seed rate, to establish 110 plants/m square, Zero4 has a similar yield potential to Nitouche.
EXCELLENT AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS
  ZERO4 Nitouche Flare

Maturity (days)

124

132

132

Straw Length (cm)

54

77

74

Standing Ability at Harvest (1 - 9)

8

7 

  6   
Zero4 is very early to mature - at least 8 days earlier than Nitouche and Flare in trials - with very short straw and excellent standing ability.
GOOD DISEASE RESISTANCE
  ZERO4 Nitouche Flare

Resistance to:

 

 

 

Downy Mildew (1-9)

8

8

8

Pea Wilt (Race 1) *

R

 S 

  S  
R = Resistant, S= Susceptible

Zero4 has very good resistance to downy mildew and is resistant to pea wilt.

 

 

 


All data is from National List, Nickerson and Innoseeds trials.

A high rating figure indicates that the variety shows the character to a high degree (1-9 scales).

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