Batian
Batian is Kenya's second resistant variety, released around 2010 as a composite of several pure lines selected from the Ruiru 11 breeding population after backcrossing toward the SL quality types. Unlike dwarf Ruiru 11 it is a taller tree that can be propagated from seed as a true-breeding composite. Its coffee berry disease resistance has held up under epidemic conditions, and fingerprinting panels now use it as a reference, which is how a Kenyan Batian turned up masquerading as 'Sidra' in Ecuador.
Arabica Introgressed Rust resistant
- Parents
- 5
- Descendants
- 0
- Countries grown
- 2
- Traits published
- 9of 14
Lineage
From Ruiru 11 × SL28 × SL34 × K7 × Sudan RumeTraits
This atlas's own table- Species
- Arabica
- Genetic group
- Introgressed
- Stature
- Tall
- Leaf tip
- not published
- Bean size
- not published
- Yield
- High
- Leaf rust
- Resistant
- Coffee berry disease
- Resistant
- Nematodes
- not published
- Best altitude
- not published
- Cup quality
- good; closer to SL28 than Ruiru 11
- Released
- not published
- Breeder or selector
- Coffee Research Foundation (now Coffee Research Institute, KALRO)
- Origin
- Kenya