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Invicta winter wheat is the highest yielding fully Recommended nabim Group 3 variety on the HGCA Recommended List

 

INVICTA is a soft endospermed winter wheat with a very high yield potential.  It has excellent agronomic characters with sound all-round disease resistance as well as good standing ability.  Invicta is classified by nabim as Group 3, has very good grain quality and is likely to be suitable for the biscuit, distilling, animal feed and export markets.

Invicta was added to the HGCA Recommended List in 2010 and is now fully Recommended.

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PEDIGREE
NSL WW48 x Robigus

VERY HIGH YIELD POTENTIAL (% Treated Control)
  Treated Trials Untreated Trials
INVICTA 104 90
Scout 99 88
Claire 98 82

Invicta has shown an excellent yield potential in both fungicide treated and untreated trials.

REGIONAL PERFORMANCE (% Treated Control)
  East West North
INVICTA 105 104 102 
Scout 98 99 98
Claire 99 97 98

Invicta has performed well in all areas of the UK, producing very high yields in the HGCA East and West regions.

GOOD LODGING RESISTANCE
  INVICTA Scout Claire
Straw Height (cm) Untreated 91 88 89
Resistance to Lodging (no PGR) 7 8 7
Resistance to Lodging (with PGR) 7 8 7
Ripening (days +/- Solstice, - = earlier. +3 +2 0
Resistance to sprouting  6 6 5

 Invicta is similar in height to Claire, and has good lodging resistance when treated with a pgr.

GRAIN QUALITY
  INVICTA Scout Claire
nabim Group 3 3 3
Endosperm Texture Soft Soft Soft
Protein Content (%) 10.8 11.4 11.2
Hagberg Falling Number 243

234

244
Specific Weight (kg/hl) 75.7 78.7 77.1

Invicta is a soft textured Group 3 variety with a high Hagberg falling number. It has shown good dough extensibilty for biscuit flour and given consistent results from distilling tests, being rated as 'medium' by the SAC.

DISEASE RESISTANCE
  INVICTA Scout Claire
Mildew 4 6 4
Yellow Rust 8 9 9
Brown Rust 7 9 5
Septoria nodorum 6 8 6
Septoria tritici 5 5 5
Eyespot 4 8 5
Fusarium ear blight 6 6 6

 Invicta has a very good disease resistance profile with no major weaknesses. It has very good resistance to yellow rust.

SOWING DATE
Based on limited information. the latest safe sowing date for Invicta is the middle of February.


Data from the HGCA Recommended Lists database, full data at www.hgca.com.

On the 1-9 scales, high figures indicate that the variety shows the character to a high degree.

Bred by Nickerson.

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