AAC Comfort is a high-yielding, semi-leafless, green cotyledon field pea (Pisum sativum L.) cultivar developed at the Lacombe Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, in Lacombe, AB. It is adapted to all field pea growing regions in western Canada. AAC Comfort has late maturity, medium lodging resistance, medium seed size, round seed shape, and good bleach resistance and green colour intensity. It is resistant to powdery mildew caused by Erysiphe pisi DC., moderately susceptible to mycosphaerella blight caused by Mycosphaerella pinodes (Berk. & Blox.) Vestergr., and susceptible to fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. pisi (Linford) Snyd. & Hans.
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30 November 2018
AAC Comfort field pea
Deng-Jin Bing,
Don Beauchesne,
Debra McLaren,
Yantai Gan,
Richard Cuthbert
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Canadian Journal of Plant Science
Vol. 99 • No. 2
April 2019
Vol. 99 • No. 2
April 2019
bleach resistance
Cultivar description
Field pea
Green pea
Pisum sativum L.