Description:
Parentage: Red Cedar, tested as MSU dark red kidney bean breeding line K11306, was developed from a cross between a light red kidney bean line, K06621 from MSU breeding program with a dark red kidney line, USDK-CBB-15 released by the USDA-ARS program at Prosser, WA. USDK-CBB-15 combines resistance to CBB with the desirable agronomic and canning quality characteristics of Red Hawk cultivar. MSU breeding line K06621 was an upright determinate line derived from the cross of K01635/K02601.