“…However, in Nariño, the varieties of peas include snowy peas, which require tutoring systems to help the plant stay off the ground, allowing an increase in potential yield. According to Checa-Coral et al (2017), employing a tutoring system represents 52% of total crop costs, which has led farmers with limited finances to not use tutored systems for the cultivation of peas, significantly increasing the incidence of foliar diseases such as mildew (Erysiphe polygoni) and Ascochyta (Ascochyta pisi), reducing yield and deteriorating quality of the final product. Because of technification difficulties in snowy pea tutoring systems, studies on shrub peas are vital, within which genotypes with the Afila gene (aF) are found, which, in the homozygote condition, transforms leaves into tendrils (Mike, 2008;Smýkal et al, 2013), reducing tipping and preventing the sheaths from coming into contact with the ground, avoiding pod rotting under high relative humidity conditions (Checa-Coral et al, 2017).…”