EJPAU 2018. Prusiński J. THE SHORT HISTORY OF REGISTRATION AND USE OF PULSE VARIETIES IN THE COMMON CATALOGUE <br>DOI:10.30825/5.ejpau.162.2018.21.4

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2018
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Prusiński J. 2018. THE SHORT HISTORY OF REGISTRATION AND USE OF PULSE VARIETIES IN THE COMMON CATALOGUE
DOI:10.30825/5.ejpau.162.2018.21.4, EJPAU 21(4/volume21), #03.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume21/issue4/volume21/abs-03.html

THE SHORT HISTORY OF REGISTRATION AND USE OF PULSE VARIETIES IN THE COMMON CATALOGUE
DOI:10.30825/5.EJPAU.162.2018.21.4

Janusz Prusiński
Department of Agrotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland

ABSTRACT

Based on national registers of member countries, European Commission develops the Common Catalogue of Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species [CCA]. The paper regards the following species of pulses from the plant variety catalogues: broad bean, pea, white lupine, blue lupine and yellow lupine, spring and winter vetch, as well as Hungarian vetch. The average number of pulse varieties entered in the common catalogue in the studied 5-year periods was 726 (from 765 in 2000 up to 693 in 2017), and currently it indicates a slight decreasing tendency. France, United Kingdom and Poland prevail in the number of registered pulse varieties in the common catalogue. The average area of commercial sowing of pulses over the analyzed years indicates growing tendencies in the case of broad bean and lupine, decreasing – for vetch, and remaining on the more or less the same level for pea with significant fluctuations, which does not indicate pulses as the growing source of plant protein in EU countries. Production of the qualified seed material was sufficient to change it in the commercial production at least once in every two years, except lupine, where a visible decreasing tendency is observed in supplying farmers with the qualified seed material.

Key words: pulses, cultivar registration, seed production.

Janusz Prusiński
Department of Agrotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Kordeckiego St. 20
85-225 Bydgoszcz
Poland
email: janusz.prusinski@utp.edu.pl

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