Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology (Mar 2015)

CD 1550 – bread wheat cultivar with high gluten strength for the cooler regions of Brazil

  • Francisco de Assis Franco,
  • Volmir Sergio Marchioro,
  • Ivan Schuster,
  • Tatiane Dalla Nora,
  • Mateus Polo,
  • Fábio Junior Alcântara de Lima,
  • Adriel Evangelista,
  • Diego Augusto dos Santos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-70332015v15n1c9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
pp. 48 – 50

Abstract

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Cultivar CD 1550 is well-suited for the wheat-growing regions 1 and 2 of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná and 3 of Paraná. It has the characteristics of bread wheat and high gluten strength. The average potential yield is 3828 kg ha-1, 7% higher than that of the controls.

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