New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science abstracts

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`Rajah' lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.)

A. C. RUSSELL

New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food
Research Limited
Private Bag 4704
Christchurch, New Zealand

Abstract  `Rajah' (Lens culinaris Medik.) is a new red lentil cultivar developed for the New Zealand lentil export industry. This cultivar has a larger seed size than the only other commercially available red cotyledoned lentil cultivar grown in New Zealand--`Titore'. `Rajah' has improved tolerance to ascochyta blight caused by Ascochyta fabae f.sp. lentis. In spring-sown regional evaluation trials conducted in Canterbury by Crop & Food Research, over three successive seasons, `Rajah' produced seed yields consistently higher than `Titore' and exhibited a higher level of tolerance to ascochyta blight.

Keywords  `Rajah'; red lentil; Lens culinaris; ascochyta blight

New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 1994, Vol. 22: 469-470

0114-0671/94/2204-0469 $2.50/0 (c) The Royal Society of New Zealand 1994

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