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: Toft Plant Breeding, Denmark
AGENT: Nickerson
STATUS: NIAB/PGRO Recommended List 2008
Kahuna has a very high yield potential, 6% above Samson. It is the highest yielding fully recommended marrowfat pea on the 2008 NIAB/PGRO Recommended List of spring peas.
Kahuna has a good combination of characters for a marrowfat, being moderately tall and medium-early to mature. |
R = Resistant; S = Susceptible Kahuna has moderately good resistance to downy mildew, in line with other marrowfats, and is resistant to pea wilt. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
