SAXON

The mid-late, high-yielding and resistant to diseases and lodging, semi-leafless pea with yellow grains

• Medium-tall plants, flower colour white
• Initial growth medium to fast
• Moderately resistant to lodging before harvest
• Resistant to pea fungal infestation
• Moderately resistant to complex of root diseases
• Moderately resistant to pea rot infestation
• Higher protein content
• Low activity of trypsin inhibitor

• High yields
• Initial growth – moderately fast
• Plant height – medium
• Resistance to lodging before harvesting – moderately resistant
• Resistance to pea fungal diseases – resistant
• Resistance to the complex of root diseases – moderately resistant
• Resistance to pea powdery mildew – moderately resistant
• Flowers – white
• The colour of the grain – yellow
• Grains – small, cylindrical, stable yellow colour
• 1000 grain weight – 225 (220-240) g
• Protein content – high
• The level of trypsin inhibitor (TIU) – low

• Yield – 5.46 t/ha
• Early/initial growth – 7.8 points
• Days to flowering – 75
• Duration of flowering – 15 days
• Days from the end of flowering to maturity – 23 days
• Days to maturity – 112
• Stem length – 88 cm
• Crop height – 63 cm
• Resistance to lodging – 7.5 points
• Resistance to lodging before harvest – 5.9 points
• Resistance to viral diseases – 7.4 points
• Resistance to pea powdery mildew (Peronospora viciae f. sp. pisi) – 7.7 points
• Resistance to the complex of root diseases – 7.4 points
• Resistance to Mycosphaerella pinodes (one of the causative agents of ascochitosis) – 7.4 points
• Resistance to ascochitosis – 7.7 points
• 1000 grain weight – 217 g
• Grains – yellow
• Grain colour uniformity – 96 %
• Protein content DM – 22.4 %
• Protein yield – 1049 kg/ha
• Starch content DM– 50.9 %
• Trypsin inhibitor (TIU) level – 4.2

* According to the data of variety trials in the Czech Republic in 2021-2023.

• Yield – 4.59 t/ha (2021 – 5.93 t/ha, 2022 – 5.85 t/ha)
• Early/initial growth – 7.9 points
• Days to flowering – 79
• Duration of flowering – 15 days
• Days to maturity – 115
• Stem length – 91 cm
• Crop height – 65 cm
• Resistance to lodging – 6.9 points
• Resistance to lodging before harvest – 6.5 points
• Resistance to viral diseases – 7.0 points
• Resistance to the complex of root diseases – 7.0 points
• 1000 grain weight – 199 g

*According to the data of variety trials in the Czech Republic in 2023

• Stem length – medium (5 points)
• Number of stem members – high (7 points)
• Flowering time – moderately late (6 points)
• Flowers – white
• Pods – short (3 points)
• Pods – narrow (3 points)
• Curvature of pods – low (3 points)
• The colour of the pods – green (2 points)
• Colour intensity of the pods – medium (5 points)
• The number of grains in a pod – moderately high (6 points)
• Intensity of green colour of immature seeds – light/medium (4 points)
• Seeds – cylindrical
• The colour of seed cotyledons – yellow
• The place where the seed is attached – yellow
• 1000 grain weight – moderately low (4 points)  

*According to UKZUZ IVS variety trials, 2016-2017, Chrlice, Czech Republic

• Early/initial growth – 7.8 points
• Duration of flowering – 5 days
• Ripening duration – 22 days
• Stem length – 86 cm
• Crop height – 50 cm
• Resistance to lodging before harvest – 5.3 points
• Resistance to Mycosphaerella pinodes (one of the causative agents of ascochitosis) – 5.2 points
• Resistance to viral diseases – 7.9 points
• Resistance to the complex of root diseases – 6.1 points
• Resistance to pea powdery mildew (Peronospora viciae f. sp. pisi) – 7.2 points
• 1000 grain weight – 217 g
• Protein content DM – 25.1 %
• Trypsin inhibitor (TIU) level – 4.8

*According to breed research SELGEN, Czech Republic

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam