![]() Mature-green ‘WhipperSnapper’ pods exhibit an attractive yellow color and are extremely easy to shell.Ĭitation: HortScience horts 42, 5 10.21273/HORTSCI. Note the long, straight pods and the solid-colored (cream), kidney-shaped peas. Mature-green pods and fresh-shell peas of ‘WhipperSnapper’ southernpea. Fresh peas are cream-colored, kidney-shaped, and weigh 24.5 g per 100 peas. The hulls of the mature-green pods are loose around the peas and the constrictions are distinct (pea locations in unshelled pods are quite obvious). ![]() Typical mature-green pods suitable for fresh-shell harvest exhibit an attractive yellow color, are 25 cm long, and contain ≈14 seeds ( Fig. Typical ready-to-harvest ‘WhipperSnapper’ snaps are green colored and slightly curved at the attachment end. In a 2001 planting, for example, 36% of the ‘WhipperSnapper’ peduncles produced three pods, 6% produced four pods, and 1% produced five pods. Each peduncle most commonly produces two pods, but the cultivar has a tendency to produce greater numbers of pods per peduncle in some seasons. Ready-to-harvest pods are attached to the peduncles in a pendant manner. ![]() Flower color is white, but the back and the lower center portion of the inside of the standard are yellow. There is no red or purple pigmentation on stems, branches, petioles, or peduncles. The leaf color is a dull medium green and the leaf surface is smooth. ‘WhipperSnapper’ has a compact, erect plant habit. It was evaluated as US-905 throughout the southern United States as an entry in the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Regional Southernpea Cooperative Trials. ‘WhipperSnapper’ originated from a bulked F 8 population grown in 1996. Department of Agriculture in 1994 ( Fery and Dukes, 1995). The paternal parent 87-161-2 is a sister line of the snap-type cultivar ‘Bettersnap’, which was released by the U.S. Also, UCR-204 seeds have a brown eye color pattern rather than the solid cream color pattern that is traditional for U.S. UCR-204 is an early maturing, photo-insensitive, and high-yielding line, but its pods exhibit a considerably lighter green color than is traditional for U.S. UCR-204 is a snap-type cowpea germplasm line released by the University of California at Riverside in 1986 ( Patel and Hall, 1986) it was developed at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, and was evaluated in India as breeding line No. The initial cross involved UCR-204 and 87-161-2. ‘WhipperSnapper’ is the product of a pedigree-type breeding program initiated in 1988.
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