Registration of the slow-darkening pinto common bean cultivar 'Wildcat'

Slow-darkening pinto common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivar 'Wildcat' (Reg. no. CV-345, PI 698190) was released by the University of Nebraska dry bean breeding program in 2018. It was bred for adaptation to western Nebraska growing conditions and enhanced resistance to bean rust, common bacterial blight (CBB), and Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV). The yield of Wildcat was comparable to conventional and slow-darkening pinto bean cultivars grown in Nebraska from 2015 to 2020. During the 2017 Western Regional Bean Trial, 2017 Midwest Regional Performance Nursery, and 2018 Cooperative Dry Bean Nursery, Wildcat had a higher seed yield than 'Twin Falls', 'Nez Perce', 'Black Foot', 'Montrose', 'Buster', 'ND-Palomino', and 'La Paz' at some locations. Wildcat has the Ur-11 gene that confers resistance to all but one known bean rust race and carries the Indel NDSU_IND_11_48.459.896 marker tagging the Ur-11 locus. Wildcat also has the SAP6 sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) marker linked to a major CBB resistance quantitative trait locus, with an intermediate CBB rating (5.0) under field conditions at western Nebraska in 2020. Wildcat also carries the single dominant I gene that confers resistance to all non-necrotic strains of BCMV and the SW13 SCAR marker linked to the I gene for resistance to BCMV. Wildcat has white flowers, blooms 46 d after planting, and is a full-season bean, maturing 93 d after planting. The seed size of Wildcat, 43.3 g 100 seeds(-1) on average, was significantly larger than current conventional and slow-darkening pinto beans.