Product Description
- New high yielding variety with potential of up to 12 tonnes per hectare
- Late maturing red grain wheat variety
- Available commercially in Zambia
Product Characteristics
- Red grained
- Late maturing – takes up to 145 to 150 days to reach physiological maturity, and between 68 and 71 days to flowering
- Good tolerance to Leaf Rust pathotypes, Powdery Mildew, and Septoria Tritici
- Adapted for soils with medium to high clay content
- Good milling and baking qualities, including ≥ 12.8% protein content, falling numbers >300 per second, ≥ 80 kg/hl test weight, ≥ 36.5% wet gluten content
- Characterised by good tillering and stand ability at populations of 2,5 million plants per hectare
Zambia
Seed Co Group
Botswana
Kenya
Malawi
Nigeria
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
West & Central Africa
South Africa
