Nickerson

FUEGO is an exceptionally high yielding spring bean with a pale skin and pale hilum suitable for 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: NPZ Lembke, Germany.
AGENT: Nickerson.
STATUS: NIAB/PGRO Recommended List 2008

VERY HIGH YIELDING
 FUEGOSyncro
YIELD (% mean of untreated controls)10694

Fuego has a very high yield potential and is the highest yielding variety on the 2008 NIAB/PGRO Recommended List of spring beans.

 

REGIONAL TREATED YIELDS
NIAB REGION
Yield (% Controls) 
 
FUEGO
SyncroQuattro 
North
113
105105
East
113
103104
South
117
104106
West
111
100103

Source: NIAB 2006

Fuego has maintained its excellent yield potential in all regions of the UK, performing 6% above its UK mean in the South

EXCELLENT AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS
 FUEGOSyncro
Earliness of Ripening77
Shortness of Straw66
Standing Ability at Harvest77

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
 FUEGOSyncro
Resistance to:  
Downy Mildew (1-9)66

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

GRAIN QUALITY
 FUEGOSyncro
Thousand Seed
Weight (g)
528516
Protein Content %27.528.2

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 NIAB/PGRO Recommended List unless stated otherwise. A high figure indicates that the variety shows the character to a high degree

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