Grain-mowing peas Vita
The paper presents a brief economic and biological characteristics of new peas variety Vita (Flamingo x Countess) recommended for use as forage. Vita refers to leafy type of varieties. Leaves are simple without anthocyan pigmentation, having tentaculas which in mixed culture with cereals makes it possible to form stands resistant to lodging. The stem is simple, of indeterminate type, medium length (96.5…130.9 cm). Number of knots to the first inflorescence are 11…15 that characterizes a variety as middle-ripening. A growing period from shoots to the economic ripeness averages 72 days (61...84), including - from complete shoots to the complete flowering - 35 (31...40), from the complete flowering to the economic ripeness - 33 (29...41) days. Variety generates up to three pods on the stem, that is has multi-fruitiness. Variety Vita combines high grain yield (up to 5.4 t/ha), green mass (to 41.3 t/ha) and dry matter (up to 6.4 t/ha) with the flexibility and stability. For the 2012…2014 new variety exceeded the standard Krasnoufimsky 93 on grain yield on average by 0.2 t/ha, of green mass - 4.5 t/ha, dry vegetative mass - 0.6 t/ha. Among the studied varieties Vita possesses the most effect of general adaptive ability (ОАСi) characterizing the mean value of sign under various environmental conditions. Parameters of OACi for varieties Vita and Krasnoufimsky 93 on grain yield were respectively 0.22 and -0.01, of green mass - 2.57 and -2.03, of dry mass 0.44 and -0.22. The content of crude protein in grain of variety Vita varied from 19.2 to 22.7 %, in dry mass from 11.6 to 18.0%. Under conditions of artificial infectious background a new variety has middle resistance against ascochitosis.