WINTER WHEAT | New hope
• Quality wheat - BGQ 6-7
• Early ripening and yielding
• Frost- and drought resistant
• Balanced phytosanitary health
APEXUS is the latest selection of high-yielding, stress-resistant wheat, with very good baking qualities. It has a quick start, winters well and is selected for high yields and in arid growing conditions.
APEXUS has a very high tolerance to yellow rust and powdery mildew, but also a well-defined tolerance to fusarium.
This new variety combines extremely well quality indicators with very high yield potential, and has been specially tested in countries such as Hungary, Serbia and Romania. In Bulgaria the first results of experiments are extremely good.
Agronomic Characteristics
| Maturity | early | 1 |
| Plant height | medium | 4 |
| Lodging resistance | good | 4 |
| Winter hardiness | very good | 2 |
Grain Quality
| Raw protein | medium | 5 |
| Wet gluten | medium | 5 |
| Hectolitre weight | very high | 1 |
| Falling number | medium | 5 |
| Resistance to sprouting | excellent | 2 |
Yield Structure
| Crop density | medium - high | 3 |
| No. kernels / ear | medium | 5 |
| Absolute weight | very high | 1 |
Disease Tolerance
| Powdery mildew | very good | 2 |
| Yellow rust | very good | 2 |
| Brown rust | good | 4 |
| Fusarium | very good | 3 |
Sowing
| Sowing time | beginning - end of October | |
| Sowing density, seeds per m2 | rec. breeder | 350-400 |
| our recommendation | 420-450 | |
Източник: изпитвания в Австрия, Унгария, Словакия, Чехия
1… very good, very early, very short, много резистентно; 9… много лошо/слабо, много късно, много висок / дълъг, неустойчив/не-толерантен.