CULTIVAR RELEASE – ‘BRS Horizonte’: new bean variety of the carioca grain type for the southern and central western regions of Brazil

‘BRS Horizonte’: new bean variety of the carioca grain type for the southern and central western regions of Brazil

Leonardo Cunha Melo, Luis Claudio de Faria, Carlos Agustín Rava, Maria José Del Peloso, Joaquim Geraldo Cáprio da Costa, José Luiz Cabrera Díaz, Josias Correa de Faria, Heloisa Torres da Silva, Aloisio Sartorato, Priscila Zaczuk Bassinello, and Francisco José Pfeilsticker Zimmermann

BRS Horizonte was developed by Embrapa Rice and Beans and the International Central for Tropical Agriculture – CIAT and was released for the southern and central western regions of Brazil in view of its erect growth habit, earliness, good lodging resistance and resistance to five pathotypes of Colletotrichum lindemuthianum and to bean common mosaic virus.

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