AC Polaris great northern dry bean

AC Polaris is a high-yielding great northern dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L .) cultivar. It was developed from a series of crosses at the Agriculture a nd Agri-Food Canada Research Centre, Lethbridge, with cooperation From the Agriculture and AgriFood Canada Research Centre Morden. AC Polaris is parti cularly well adapted to the western Canadian prairies using the narrow-row production system, yielding significantly more than check cultivars, US1140 and CDC Nordic, at 14 of 15 trials. AC Polaris is moderately susceptible t o white mold.