New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science abstracts
`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
Cultivar release
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