BRS Esplendor – Common bean cultivar with black grain, upright growth and disease resistance
Joaquim Geraldo Cáprio da Costa, Leonardo Cunha Melo, Helton Santos Pereira, Maria José Del Peloso, Luís Cláudio de Faria,José Luís Cabrera Díaz, Adriane Wendland and Carlos Augustín Rava (in memorian)
ABSTRACT – BRS Esplendor is a common bean cultivar with black grain, suitable for 12 Brazilian states. The mean productivity is 2,156 kg ha-1, by 7.5 % higher than of controls, has a high yield potential (4,120 kg ha-1), upright growth, high tolerance to lodging and high resistance to
anthracnose, fusarium wilt and common bacterial blight.