A field pea cultivar designated 4004764 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds, plants, and plant parts of field pea cultivar 4004764, and methods for producing a field pea plants by crossing field pea cultivar 4004764 with itself or with another field pea variety. Embodiments further include methods for producing field pea plants containing one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic field pea plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments further relate to field pea cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from field pea cultivar 4004764, methods for producing other field pea cultivars, lines, hybrids, or plant parts derived from field pea cultivar 4004764, and the field pea plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.

A field pea cultivar designated 3997496 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds, plants, and plant parts of field pea cultivar 3997496, and methods for producing a field pea plants by crossing field pea cultivar 3997496 with itself or with another field pea variety. Embodiments further include methods for producing field pea plants containing one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic field pea plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments further relate to field pea cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from field pea cultivar 3997496, methods for producing other field pea cultivars, lines, hybrids, or plant parts derived from field pea cultivar 3997496, and the field pea plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.

Pea plants or part(s) thereof, as well as products such as commodity whole or split grains, pea protein concentrates (PPC), dairy analogues or protein-fortified beverages and meat analogues or texturized pea protein prepared therefrom, which have high protein content, low fat content and neutral taste are provided. The pea plans, part(s) and products are characterized by specific sets of genetic markers that correspond to identified quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of many pea varieties was performed to derive the markers for these phenotypic traits, and a breeding simulation was used to identify the most common and most stable markers. Following verification of trait stability over several generations, markers and marker cassettes were defined as being uniquely present in the developed pea lines. The resulting pea lines can be used to provide products with pea-based protein and low or no off flavors.

Methods including (1) a step of obtaining a water dispersion of a pea ground product by dry pulverizing the pea and mixing same with water, or wet pulverizing the pea in water, (2) a step of obtaining an enzymatic reaction mixture by adding transglutaminase to a solution obtained by removing solid substances from the water dispersion obtained in step (1) or the water dispersion obtained in step (1), and (3) a step of adding an acid to the enzymatic reaction mixture obtained in step (2) and collecting the precipitate, are useful for preparing a modified pea protein having increased viscosity.

A field pea cultivar designated 4009968 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds, plants, and plant parts of field pea cultivar 4009968, and methods for producing a field pea plants by crossing field pea cultivar 4009968 with itself or with another field pea variety. Embodiments further include methods for producing field pea plants containing one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic field pea plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments further relate to field pea cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from field pea cultivar 4009968, methods for producing other field pea cultivars, lines, hybrids, or plant parts derived from field pea cultivar 4009968, and the field pea plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.