Tybalt

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TYBALT is a very high yielding spring wheat with NABIM Group 2 milling quality. It has excellent resistance to mildew, the rusts and Septoria tritici with moderately long straw. Tybalt is HGCA Recommended for both late autumn and spring sowing, offering great flexibility in drilling date.

Breeder: Wiersum BV, Netherlands . Status - HGCA (UK) Recommended List for late autumn and spring sowing. NABIM Group 2.

PEDIGREE
ZE 95-2355 x Chablis

VERY HIGH YIELDING
	TYBALT	Ashby	Paragon
AUTUMN SOWN TREATED YIELD (% mean of treated controls)	103	102	96
SPRING SOWN TREATED YIELD (% mean of treated controls)	110	104	94

Tybalt has produced very high yields from autumn and spring sowings and is the highest yielding quality variety when spring drilled.

GOOD AGRONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS
	TYBALT	Ashby	Paragon
AUTUMN SOWN:
Resistance to Lodging + PGR	5	7	7
Straw Height (cm) Treated	90	89	97
Ripening (days +/- Chablis)	-1	+1	+2
SPRING SOWN:
Resistance to Lodging + PGR	(3)	7	6
Straw Height (cm) Treated	(86)	(88)	(91)
Ripening (days +/- Chablis)	(0)	(+1)	(0)

( ) = limited data - = earlier

Tybalt is a moderately tall strawed variety; autumn sowings respond well to the spring use of plant growth regulators

EXCELLENT DISEASE RESISTANCE
Resistance to:	TYBALT	Ashby	Paragon
Mildew	9	7	7
Yellow Rust	8	9	9
Brown Rust	9	8	8
Septoria tritici	7	5	6

Tybalt has excellent resistance to the main wheat diseases - mildew, yellow rust, brown rust and Septoria tritici - and is superior to most other spring varieties in this respect

GRAIN QUALITY (Spring sown)
	TYBALT	Ashby	Paragon
Nabim Group	2	2	1
Endosperm Texture	Hard	Hard	Hard
Protein Content %	12.5	13.2	13.4
Hagberg Falling Number	298	303	314
Specific Weight (Kg/hl)	76.0	78.2	76.8

Tybalt is a nabim Group 2 variety with an appealing combination of grain characteristics

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