Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology (Jan 2008)

CULTIVAR RELEASE-BRS Minotauro - Triticale Cultivar

  • Alfredo do Nascimento Junior,
  • Pedro Luiz Scheeren,
  • Márcio Só e Silva,
  • Eduardo Caierão,
  • Luiz Eichelberger,
  • Maria Imaculada Pontes Moreira Lima,
  • Sandra Patussi Brammer,
  • Ana Christina Sagebin Albuquerque

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 2
pp. 174 – 176

Abstract

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The triticale cultivar BRS Minotauro was developed by the Brazilian Agricultural Research CorporationEmbrapa. It is a result of a cross of Brazilian wheat and rye with hexaploid triticale. BRS Minotauro is hexaploid, has amedium cycle, medium to tall plant stature, adapts extremely well to cultivation conditions in the south of Brazil, with anaverage grain yield of 3,790 kg ha-1, i.e., 9% higher than the mean yield of the controls, and has a high yield stability indifferent environments.

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