Prophet is a large blue field pea with a very high yield potential, good standing ability and excellent downy mildew resistance. Prophet was added to the NIAB/PGRO Recommended List for spring 2007.

BREEDER: Limagrain-Advanta Netherland BV
AGENT: Nickerson, UK 
STATUS: NIAB/PGRO Recommended List 2008 

YIELD POTENTIAL   PROPHET Nitouche  Bilbo YIELD (% mean of untreated controls) 106 94  103 Prophet has a very high yield potential, 12% above Nitouche and 3% above the high yielding white seeded variety, Bilbo. AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS   PROPHET Nitouche Earliness of Ripening 5 5 Shortness of Straw 4 4 Standing Ability at Harvest 7 7 Prophet is a moderately tall strawed variety with similar standing ability to Nitouche. Prophet is relatively early to mature, like Nitouche.

DISEASE RESISTANCE   PROPHET Nitouche Resistance to:     Downy Mildew (1-9) 8 7 Pea Wilt (Race 1)*   R   S  *R = resistant, S= susceptible Prophet has excellent resistance to downy mildew (8) and is resistant to Pea Wilt. GRAIN QUALITY   PROPHET Nitouche Thousand Seed Weight (g) 300 292 Protein Content % 22.4 24.2 Prophet is a true large blue variety with a high thousand seed weight.

All information is from the NIAB/PGRO Recommended List. A high figure indicates that the variety shows the character to a high degree