Gladiatior

Parentage: Falstaff x Shannon

Key Benefits

Very high yielding feed wheat that combines good standing, robust disease resistance and high specific weight
Four years commercial experience on farms emphasises its consistently high yields and quality performance
Gladiator gives high yields and performs well as either a first or second wheat

Yield
Gladiator delivers consistently high yields across the UK regions, over years and across soil types, drilling dates and rotations.

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Agronomy
Gladiator may be drilled from mid-September to a latest safe sowing date of mid-February. However, optimal performance will come from crops sown in mid-September to late October.

Gladiator performs well as a first or second wheat. The graph below demonstrates feed wheat performance. Varieties on or above the line perform consistently as a 2nd wheat. Those below the line are less consistent as a 2nd wheat.
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Gladiator is a fast developing variety with good tillering capacity, which matures at the same time as Claire.

Gladiator has excellent all-round disease resistance and short stiff straw.

	Gladiator	Malacca	Einstein	Consort	Claire
Mildew	6	6	6	6	4
Yellow Rust	8	9	6	6	9
Brown Rust	8	6	6	3	5
Septoria nodorum	6	7	5	4	8
Septoria tritici	5	5	5	4	6
Eyespot	4	4	6	6	5
Fusarium ear blight	5	6	6	5	7
Resistance to lodging - PGR	7	7	7	8	6
Resistance to lodging + PGR	8	8	8	8	7
Ripening (days +/- Claire)	0	-1	0	+2	0
Resistance to sprouting	6	6	6	6	5

Gladiator is resistant to Chlorotoluron.

Quality
Gladiator produces a bold grain sample with a high specific weight.

	Gladiator	Malacca	Einstein	Consort	Claire
Protein Content (%)	11.8	12.4	12.0	11.8	11.8
Hagberg Falling Number	267	298	268	223	236
Specific weight (kg/hl)	77.2	75.2	77.1	76.8	76.2
1000 grain weight	46.7	45.7	50.8	50.7	47.7
Zeleny volume	(28)	48.1	42.1	24.0	25.2
Chopin alveograph W	(93)	223	173	102	99
Chopin alveograph P/L	(0.8)	0.7	0.5	0.2	0.3

( ) denotes limited data

Data a partial abstraction from RAGT website and the HGCA Recommended List Winter Wheat 2007/8.
The full database can be consulted at www.hgca.com and www.ragt.co.uk