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This invention relates to a new field bean variety that produces distinctly colored yellow seed which remain relatively unchanged by season. The invention also relates to a method for producing a field bean plant by crossing a first parent field bean plant with a second parent field bean plant, wherein the first and/or second field bean plant is the field bean plant of the present invention.

Inventor: Larry M. Proctor
Primary Examiner: Melissa L. Kimball
Current U.S. Classification: 800/260; 800/313
International Classification: A01H 500; A01H 104

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Claims

1. A Phaseolus vulgaris field bean seed designated Enola as deposited with the American Type Culture Collection under accession number 209549.

2. A field bean plant produced by growing the seed of claim 1.

3. Pollen of the plant of claim 2.

4. A field bean plant having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the field bean plant of claim 2.

5. A method of producing a field bean plant comprising crossing a first parent field bean plant with a second parent field bean plant, wherein the first field bean plant is the field bean plant of claim 2.

6. A method of producing a field bean plant comprising crossing a first parent field bean plant with a second parent field bean plant, wherein the second field bean plant is the field bean plant of claim 2.

7. A method of producing a field bean plant comprising crossing a first parent field bean plant with a second parent field bean plant, wherein the first and second field bean plant is the field bean plant of claim 2.

8. A field bean variety of Phaseolus vulgaris that produces seed having a seed coat that is yellow in color, wherein the yellow color is from about 7.5 Y 8.5/4 to about 7.5 Y 8.5/6 in the Munsell Book of Color when viewed in natural light.

9. The Phaseolus vulgaris of claim 8 wherein the seed further comprises a hilar ring.

10. The Phaseolus vulgaris of claim 9 wherein the hilar ring has a color of rom about 2.5 Y 9/4 to about 2.5 Y 9/6 in the Munsell Book of Color when viewed in natural light.

11. Propagation material of the Phaseolus vulgaris of claim 8.

12. Pollen of the Phaseolus vulgaris of claim 8.

13. Seed from a field bean variety of Phaseolus vulgaris that is completely yellow in color, wherein the yellow color is from about 7.5 Y 8.5/4 to about 7.5 Y 8.5/6 in the Munsell Book of Color.

14. Seed of claim 13 further comprising a hilar ring.

15. Seed of claim 14 wherein the color of the hilar ring is from about 2.5 Y 9/4 to about 2.5 Y 9/6 in the Munsell Book of Color when viewed in natural light.

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