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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 has been added to the HGCA Recommended List for 2010/11.

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PEDIGREE
NSL WW48 x Robigus

VERY HIGH YIELD POTENTIAL
(% Treated Control)
 Treated TrialsUntreated Trials
INVICTA10385
Robigus10074
Claire9775

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

REGIONAL PERFORMANCE
(% Treated Control)
 NorthDry (East)Wet (West)
INVICTA(100)103103
Robigus100100100
Claire969796

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

GOOD LODGING RESISTANCE
 INVICTARobigusClaire
Straw Height (cm) Untreated 939192
Resistance to Lodging (no PGR) 777
Resistance to Lodging (with PGR) 877
Ripening (days +/- Solstice, - = earlier.+3+10

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

GRAIN QUALITY
 INVICTARobigusClaire
nabim Group 333
Endosperm TextureSoftSoftSoft
Protein Content (%)11.011.411.6
Hagberg Falling Number237204249
Specific Weight (kg/hl)75.576.877.0

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.

DISEASE RESISTANCE
 INVICTARobigusClaire
Mildew664
Yellow Rust829
Brown Rust765
Septoria nodorum(7)77
Septoria tritici666
Eyespot556
Fusarium ear blight(6)67

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

SOWING DATE
The latest safe sowing date for Invicta is the end of January.

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.

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