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Durum Wheat - Levante
Levante
- Very high and stable yield potential, high adaptability to different cultivation conditions;
- Very good pasta-making quality of semolina much appreciated by the pasta industry;
- Very high yellow index;
- High lodging and brown rust resistance
SOWING DATE
Early sowing date are not recommended.
SOWING DENSITY
Sowing should be performed with 400 germinating seeds per meter in adequately prepared soils.
NITROGEN FERTILIZATION
Nitrogen should be distributed according to local conditions. Fertilization should be divided into the following way:
- 1/4 at sowing time or when the plants reach the third-leaf stage;
- 2/4 at end of tillering-beginning of culm elongation;
- 1/4 at 2° node.
Under low density conditions, additional nitrogen should be provided at the end of winter.
PHYTOSANITARY DEFENCE
Particular fungicide treatments are required only under conditions particularly favourable to the development of fungus pathogenous development.
VARIETY CHARACTERISTICS
- Pedigree
- G80/Piceno//Ionio
- Release
- 2002
PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
- Seasonal Type
- spring
- Heading Time
- medium late
- Height
- medium
- Awn colour
- whitish
- Potential yield
- high
GRAIN QUALITY
- Test Weight
- good
- Yellow index ("b" Minolta)
- high (25-27)
- Protein Content
- high/very high
- Gluten quality (scale of values 1-10)
- good (6,5)
RESISTANCE TO:
- Powdery Mildew
- good
- Leaf Rust
- good
- Septoria
- medium
- Cold
- good
- Lodging
- good
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