Nijinsky

Nijinsky is an HGCA Recommended soft endosperm NABIM group 3 variety. Nijinsky is the progeny of a Claire x Consort cross and has inherited many of the strengths of both parents.

Disease resistance is good like Claire with the benefit of improved mildew resistance.

PEDIGREE Claire x Consort.

YIELD
	Treated Trials	Untreated Trials
NIJINSKY	101	80
Claire	100	79
Consort	98	71

Source: HGCA Recommended List 2007/8

REGIONAL TREATED TRIALS
	North	East	West
Nijinsky	99	101	102
Claire	98	100	101
Consort	100	98	97

Source: HGCA Recommended List 2006/7

STRAW CHARACTERS
	NIJINSKY	Claire	Consort
Resistance to lodging with pgr	8	7	8
Height without PGR(cm)	85	88	84
Ripening (days +) - Claire	0	0	+2

Source: HGCA Recommended List 2007/8

GRAIN QUALITY
	NIJINSKY	Claire	Consort
Biscuit-making quality	Y	Y	Y
Endosperm texture	Soft	Soft	Soft
Protein content (%)	11.9	11.8	11.8
Hagberg Falling Number	216	236	223
Specific weight (kg/hl)	74.8	76.2	76.8
1000 grain weight (g)	47.1	47.7	50.7

Y= Suited to this market

Source: HGCA Recommended List 2007/8

DISEASE RESISTANCE
	NIJINSKY	Claire	Consort
Mildew	6	4	6
Yellow Rust	8	9	6
Brown Rust	5	5	3
Septoria nodorum	6	8	4
Septoria tritici	5	6	4
Eyespot Fusarium ear blight	6 7	5 7	6 5

Source: HGCA Recommended List 2007/8

Nijinsky has excellent all round disease resistance and, like one of its parents Claire, has particularly good resistance to yellow rust.

All information is a partial extraction from the nickerson website and also the HGCA Recommended List 2007/8. See www.nickersonuk.com and also www.hgca.com for the full dataset