Three new pea and spring bean varieties from NPZ UK have been added to the 2026 PGRO Descriptive List.
The three varieties are Maderas LVC spring bean, Bullet Green pea and Yoshi Marrowfat pea. They are described as delivering high, reliable yields with strong vigour, disease resistance, and agronomic resilience – alongside end-user appeal.
“For spring beans, Lynx has become the well-established variety for both growers and end users as consistently high yielding with high downy mildew resistance and high standing power,” said NPZ managing director Tom Yewbrey.
Agronomics
Just next to Lynx in the DL yield table is Genius, with high seed yield and offering growers a large sized bean plus excellent agronomic characteristics. Loki is the NPZ UK spring bean variety with a good yield and a set of equally good agronomics.
“We are very strong in the increasingly important LVC sector (low vicine/convicine) that will help to further develop the UK pulse market with end users to the long-term benefit of growers. Ketu is a very high yielding LVC bean, along with Futura and newcomer Maderas, to give our set of varieties in this developing category. Turning to combining peas, we have Pangea as a top yielding green pea along with Carrington, Butterfly and Bluetime.”
These are now joined by Bullet, a new high yielding variety. Pangea combines very high yield with high resistance to Powdery mildew, high downy mildew resistance and – like all NPZ UK combining pea varieties – Pangea is resistant to pea wilt.
“Carrington is a high yielding variety with very high downy mildew resistance; Butterfly is a high yielding variety with early maturity; Bluetime is high yielding combined with a high downy mildew resistance. All three have good standing power.