TEXAS
PINKEYE PURPLE HULL COWPEA - An erect bush-type southern pea.
It will produce equal or greater yield than other pinkeye varieties
because it can be planted in narrow rows or in a twin-row planting
pattern. Processors consider the Texas Pinkeye to have excellent
canning and freezing qualities. Texas Pinkeye has an average tolerance
to diseases and insects, but has exhibited resistance or immunity
to various strains of blackeye cowpea mosaic virus and root knot
incited by Meloidogyne incognita race. Texas Pinkeye shows equal
or superior performance to other pinkeye varieties in several
locations in Texas and throughout the southeastern U.S., but does
especially well in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. This variety
is protected under PVP title V.
TEXSPROUT
MUNGBEAN - displays an erect growth habit with a determinate
growth pattern and green hypocotyls. Flowers are yellowish-green.
Immature pods, including ventral suture, are light green. The
semiflat mature pods are black with pendant attachment. Pod pubescence
is intermediate between glabrous and heavy pubescent. Seeds are
shiny green and oval with a concave hilum. TexSprout possesses
moderate resistance to powdery mildew, cercospora leaf spot, pod
boer, and is highly resistant to both shattering and lodging.
TexSprout is earlier flowering, earlier maturing, and generally
higher yielding than Berken or Lincoln. TexSprout possesses superior
sprouting characteristics; i.e., thick, long, very white hypocotyls,
with sprout weight to seed weight ratio of 9:1.