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

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

 

PEDIGREE
Alchemy x Oakley

VERY HIGH YIELD POTENTIAL
(% Treated Controls)
  Treated Trials Untreated Trials
HORATIO 105 92
Viscount 103 90
Alchemy 100 87

Horatio has shown an excellent yield potential in trials, both with and without fungicide. It has the best combination of treated and untreated yields of any variety on the current HGCA Recommended List.

REGIONAL PERFORMANCE
  East West North  
HORATIO 105 104  (104)  
Viscount 104 102 104  
Alchemy 100 101 100  
( ) = limited data

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

AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS
  HORATIO Viscount Alchemy
Straw height (cm) untreated 89 83 93
Resistance to lodging (no PGR) 6 7 7
Resistance to lodging (with PGR) 8 7 7
Ripening (days +/- Solstice, + = late) +1 +1 +3

Horatio has medium length straw with very good resistance to lodging when PGR treated.
GRAIN QUALITY
  HORATIO Viscount Alchemy
nabim Group 4 4 4
Endosperm texture Soft Soft Soft
Protein content (%) 10.9 10.7 11.0
Hagberg falling number 238 172 246
Specific weight (kg/hl) 76.4 76.1 77.5

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

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

Horatio 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, Horatio 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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