PROPHET is a large blue field pea with a very high yield potential, added to the PGRO Recommended List in 2007. Like Nitouche, the long-time industry standard large blue, Prophet has a good combination of agronomic characters: good standing, long straw and excellent resistance to downy mildew.

Prophet is a true large blue, producing samples likely to fine favour in the human consumption, micronising and export markets.

BREEDER: Limagrain Europe
UK AGENT: Limagrain UK
STATUS: PGRO Recommended List

VERY HIGH YIELD POTENTIAL
  PROPHET Crackerjack
YIELD (% control) 100 102

Prophet has a very high yield potential and has perfromed consistently in trials.

 

EXCELLENT AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS
  PROPHET Crackerjack
Earliness of ripening 5 5
Shortness of straw 4 4
Standing ability at harvest 7 7

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

EXCELLENT DOWNY MILDEW RESISTANCE
  PROPHET Crackerjack

Resistance to:

 

 

Downy mildew

8

6

Pea wilt (Race 1)*

 R 

 R 

R = Resistant

Prophet has very good resistance to downy mildew and is unlikely to need a specific seed dressing for this disease. Prophet is resistant to pea wilt.

 

GRAIN QUALITY & MARKETING 
  PROPHET Crackerjack
Thousand Seed
Weight (g)
258 256

Prophet 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).

 

 

 

 


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

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

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