SAHARA has a very high yield potential both with and without fungicide treatment combined with stiff straw and good all-round disease resistance. It has excellent grain quality with a high specific weight and Hagberg Falling Number making it suitable for domestic use as animal feed.
Breeder: Nickerson
PEDIGREE | | Claire x Savannah |
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YIELD (% treated controls) | | | Treated Trials | Untreated Trials | | SAHARA | 104 | 87 | | Gladiator | 103 | 88 | | Robigus | 102 | 83 |
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Sahara has a very high treated and untreated yield potential. REGIONAL TREATED YIELDS
Yield (% treated controls) | | HGCA REGION | SAHARA | Gladiator | Robigus | | North | 106 | 104 | 102 | | Dry (East) | 104 | 102 | 102 | | Wet (West) | 104 | 103 | 102 | | ROTATIONAL POSITION | | | | | First Cereal | 104 | 103 | 103 | | Second or More Cereal | 106 | 105 | 99 | | SOIL TYPE | | | | | Light Soils | 104 | 103 | 102 | | Heavy Soils | 105 | 103 | 102 |
Sahara has given high yields in all areas of the UK and performed particularly well as a second wheat and on heavy land. STIFF STRAW | | | SAHARA | Gladiator | Robigus | Straw Height (cm)
Untreated | 94 | 84 | 90 | Resistance to Lodging
(no PGR) | 8 | 6 | 7 | Resistance to Lodging
(with PGR) | 9 | 8 | 8 | Ripening (days +/- Claire,
+ = late) | +3 | 0 | +1 |
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Sahara has relatively long straw with good lodging resistance when PGR treated. It is later to ripen than Claire and Gladiator.
| EXCELLENT YELLOW RUST RESISTANCE | | | SAHARA | Gladiator | Robigus | | Mildew | 6 | 6 | 6 | | Yellow Rust | 9 | 8 | 3 | | Brown Rust | 7 | 7 | 6 | | Septoria tritici | 6 | 5 | 7 |
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Sahara has excellent resistance to yellow rust and no weakness to the other major foliar diseases. GRAIN QUALITY | | | SAHARA | Gladiator | Robigus | | nabim Group | 4 | 4 | 3 | | Endosperm Texture | HARD | HARD | SOFT | | Protein Content (%) | 11.1 | 12.0 | 12.0 | | Hagberg Falling Number | 215 | 267 | 206 | | Specific Weight (kg/hl) | 78.9 | 77.2 | 76.5 |
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Sahara is a nabim Group 4 variety with a hard endosperm texture. It has a very high specific weight and good Hagberg Falling Number for its sector SOWING DATE | | The latest safe sowing date for Sahara is the end of January. |
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All data is a partial extraction from the HGCA Wheat Update 2006. The full database can be consulted at www.hgca.com. On the 1-9 scales, high figures indicate that the variety shows the character to a high degree.
