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
Sahara has a very high treated and untreated yield potential.
Sahara has given high yields in all areas of the UK and performed particularly well as a second wheat and on heavy land.
Sahara has relatively long straw with good lodging resistance when PGR treated. It is later to ripen than Claire and Gladiator. |
Sahara has excellent resistance to yellow rust and no weakness to the other major foliar diseases.
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
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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.
