Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology (Jan 2011)

CULTIVAR RELEASE - CD 120 – wheat cultivar, standard quality soft, for the Southern Region of Brazil

  • Ivan Schuster,
  • Edson Feliciano de Oliveira,
  • Tatiane Dalla Nora,
  • Francisco de Assis Franco,
  • Volmir Sergio Marchioro,
  • Adriel Evangelista,
  • Mateus Polo,
  • Renato da Rocha

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 4
pp. 375 – 378

Abstract

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The cultivar CD 120, developed by the Cooperativa Central de Pesquisa Agrícola (COODETEC) is suitable for cultivation in the VCU wheat-producing regions 1 and 2 of the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. It is tolerant to the major wheat diseases and pre-harvest germination and has soft wheat quality and a 6.5 % higher grain yield (3.678 kg ha-1) than the control.

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