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FUEGO spring bean is the market leading variety with a very high yield potential.

Fuego has the pale skin & pale hilum preferred by the premium export market for human consumption.

Agronomically Fuego is sound, combining very good standing power with early maturity and good downy mildew resistance. Fuego has excellent quality, producing grain with a high thousand grain weight and a bold grain preferred by the export market.

BREEDER: LS Plant Breeding, Germany
AGENT: Limagrain UK
STATUS: PGRO Recommended List

VERY HIGH YIELDING
  FUEGO
YIELD (% control) 105

Fuego has a very high yield potential and has shown a consistent performance over many seasons.

EXCELLENT AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS
  FUEGO
Earliness of ripening 7
Shortness of straw 6
Standing ability at harvest 8

Fuego has a sound combination of agronomic characters being moderately tall with good standing power. It is also relatively early to ripen.

GOOD DISEASE RESISTANCE
  FUEGO
Resistance to:  
Downy mildew 5

Fuego has good resistance to downy mildew and is unlikely to need a fungicide treatment in most situations.

GRAIN QUALITY & MARKETING
  FUEGO
Thousand seed
weight (g)
485

Fuego has a high thousand seed weight and produces a bold looking sample. Its pale skin and pale hilum make it potentially suitable for the premium export market, for samples that are free of staining and insect damage

 

 

 


All information is from the PGRO Recommended List of spring beans available at www.pgro.org

A high figure indicates that the variety shows the character to a high degree.

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