Four new pea and bean varieties added to Descriptive List
23 December 2020 |
Varieties LG Viper, LG Sphinx, Allison and Norton have been added to the list
Spring bean varieties LG Viper, LG Sphinx and Allison have joined winter bean Norton on the PGRO’s 2021 Descriptive List.
LG Viper, bred by Limagrain UK, joins the list as the joint highest yielding variety alongside Stella.
In trials it returned a yield of 108% which is 2% higher than Lynx, the highest yielding five-year variety.
From the same breeder, LG Sphinx has a recorded yield of 103%.
Allison, from LS Plant Breeding, is a low vicine/convicine type yielding 102% – just 2% behind Victus, the highest yielding year five-year variety of this type.