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Gravitas is a soft textured winter wheat with an excellent yield potential combined with good agronomic characters and grain quality

GRAVITAS has a very good disease resistance profile with no major weaknesses, incuding resistance to orange wheat blossom midge. It is potentially suitable for the distilling, biofuel, export and animal feed markets.

 

PEDIGREE
Alchemy x Robigus

VERY HIGH YIELD POTENTIAL
(% Treated Controls)
  Treated Trials Untreated Trials
GRAVITAS 105 91
Viscount 103 90
Alchemy 100 87

Gravitas has shown an excellent yield potential in trials, both with and without fungicide. It is the highest yielding soft feed variety on the current HGCA Recommended List.

REGIONAL PERFORMANCE
  East West North  
GRAVITAS 105 104  104  
Viscount 104 102 104  
Alchemy 100 101 100  

Gravitas has produced very high yields in all the HGCA regions.

AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS
  GRAVITAS Viscount Alchemy
Straw height (cm) untreated 90 83 93
Resistance to lodging (no PGR) 5 7 7
Resistance to lodging (with PGR) 7 7 7
Ripening (days +/- Solstice, + = late) +2 +1 +3

Gravitas has medium length straw with good resistance to lodging when PGR treated.
GRAIN QUALITY
  GRAVITAS Viscount Alchemy
nabim Group 4 4 4
Endosperm texture Soft Soft Soft
Protein content (%) 10.4 10.7 11.0
Hagberg falling number 214 172 246
Specific weight (kg/hl) 77.0 76.1 77.5

Gravitas is a soft textured nabim Group 4 wheat with a good Hagberg falling number and high specific weight.

DISEASE RESISTANCE
  GRAVITAS Viscount Alchemy
Mildew 7 7 7
Yellow rust 7 4 8
Brown rust 7 8 5
Septoria nodorum 6 7 6
Septoria tritici 6 5 6
Eyespot 6 6 6
Fusarium ear blight 6 6 8
Orange wheat blossom midge   R R  
R = resistant

Gravitas has a good disease resistance profile for all the main foliar diseases as well as resistance to orange wheat blossom midge. Like Alchemy it has very good resistance to Septoria tritici.

MARKET OPTIONS 
Being a soft endospermed wheat, Gravitas is potentially suitable for the distilling, biofuel, export and animal feed markets.

 

 


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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