ABSTRACT
Super Araucana-INIA: a new Chilean large-seed lentil (Lens culinaris Med.) cultivar.

Juan Tay U.1, Andrés France I.1 y Mario Paredes C.1
 

SuperAraucana-INIA is the first lentil cultivar developed in Chile by crossing (Araucana-INIA x Tekoa) x De la Mata, which was first done at the Quilamapu Research Center of the National Institute of Agricultural Investigations (INIA) in 1984. Its main characteristic is the production of 70% of the seeds with over a 7mm diameter, which is called "lentejón" in the internal market, and a yield similar to Araucana-INIA. SuperAraucana-INIA is susceptible to the lentil rust caused by Uromyces fabae f. sp. lentis, making necessary its protection with fungicides, especially when it is planted in dry coastal loam soils in winter and rich lowland soils in spring.

Keywords: Chilean cultivar, lentejón, rust.
1 Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Centro Regional de Investigación Quilamapu, Casilla 246, Chillán, Chile. E-mail: jtay@inia.cl.