DOI: 10.1139/cjps-2024-0098 ISSN: 0008-4220

AAC McMurphy field pea

Deng-Jin Bing, Don Beauchesne, Michelle Miller, Brett Mollison, Yong Min Kim, Kui Liu, Richard Cuthbert, Hamid Naeem

AAC McMurphy is a semi-leafless, yellow cotyledonary field pea ( Pisum sativum L.) cultivar developed at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Lacombe Research and Development Centre, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. It has a maturity of 90 days, one-thousand-seed weight of 246 g, and a lodging score of 2.9 on the scale of 1–9. The seed crude protein content of AAC McMurphy is 24.2%. AAC McMurphy is resistant to powdery mildew (caused by Erysiphe pisi) and moderately susceptible to mycosphaerella blight (caused by Mycosphaerella pinodes) and fusarium root rot (caused by Fusarium avenaceum).

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