Registration of 'Fiero' dark red kidney bean.(Registrations Of Cultivars)

Crop Science, March, 2005 by Hang, A.N.; Hosfield, G.L.; Miklas, P.N.; Silbernagel, M.J.

'Fiero' dark red kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) (Reg. no. CV-235, PI 635038) was developed cooperatively by the Washington Agricultural Research Center and USDA-ARS, and released in 1998. Fiero is a full-season, high-yielding, upright determinant bush bean adapted to the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Fiero is an [F.sub.6:9] line from the cross 'Montcalm'/K-59. Montcalm is a very popular commercial cultivar released by Michigan State University and has been the dark red kidney standard; however, its yields are generally low. K-59 is a Curly top virus (CTV) resistant light red kidney germplasm line developed by Burke et al. (1995). Both parents have dominant I gene resistance to Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV) and an intermediate level of resistance to halo...

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