ACHILLE

Triticum durum

A mid-early, alternative, awned, highly productive, highly resistant to Fusarium wilt, durum wheat with high gluten index

  • Excellent productivity
  • Plant height – 80-85 cm
  • Tillering – excellent
  • Lodging – high resistant
  • Very high resistance to fusarium
  • Earing – medium
  • Ear – short/white/glaucosity/parallel edges
  • Awn – brown
  • 1000 seed weight – 31-41 g
  • High gluten index
  • Suitable for different cultivation and usage conditions
  • Yield – 2.87 t/ha
  • Yield potential (in Italy) – 5.44 t/ha
  • Heading time – medium
  • Plant height – 80-85 cm (medium)
  • Tillering – excellent
  • Ears – short, white, awned, with parallel edges
  • Awns – brown
  • Resistance to lodging – very high
  • Resistance to cold – resistant
  • Susceptibility to draught – moderately resistant
  • Resistance to fusarium – very resistant
  • Resistance to powdery mildew – moderately resistant
  • Resistance to leaf rust – moderately resistant
  • Resistance to septoria – moderately resistant
  • Resistance to Pyrenophora tritici – susceptible
  • Weight of 1000 grains – 48-52 g (low)
  • Hectoliter weight – 82-84 kg/hl
  • Protein content – ​​13.0-14.0 %
  • Suitability for food – good
  • Gluten index – 90-93 (excellent)
  • Wet gluten content – 27-30 %
  • Recommended for both organic and conventional farms
  • Number of plants (06/06/2022) – 402.7 nb/m2
  • Number of shoots (06/06/2022) – 716 nb/m2
  • Number of productive stems (06/06/2022) – 412 nb/m2
  • Incidence of powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis) (26.07.2022) – 0 %
  • Intensity of powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis) (26.07.2022) – 0 %
  • Incidence of Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (26.07.2022) – 100 %
  • Intensity of Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (26.07.2022) – 4.75 %
  • Incidence of septoriosis (Zymoseptoria tritici) (26.07.2022) – 39 %
  • Intensity of septoriosis (Zymoseptoria tritici) (26.07.2022) – 2.65 %
  • Vegetation period to heading – 43 days
  • Vegetation period to flowering – 51 days
  • Vegetation period to maturity – 92 days
  • Plant height – 53.8 cm
  • Number of grains in an ear – 32.03 nb/ear
  • Weight of grain per ear – 1.37 g
  • Weight of 1000 grains – 38.2 g
  • Hectoliter weight – 77.3 kg/hl
  • Grain moisture – 15.66 %
  • Grain yield (at 14 % humidity) – 2.87 t/ha
  • Protein content – 11.9 %
  • Gluten – 23.3 %
  • Falling number – 410
  • Sedimentation – 42.1
  • Starch – 65.3 %
  • Husk content – 1.54 %
  • Vitreosity – 79 %

* data from wheat variety testing at LRCAF Joniškėlis research station (2022)

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam


Recommended sowing rate: 400-450 seeds/m2, or 160-230 kg/ha