ZULU
WINTER WHEAT
Breeder’s Reference: Parentage: LGW54
(CEB99080 x Claire) x Robigus
UK Breeder & Agent: Limagrain UK
Key Benefits
High Yielding Biscuit Wheat with
Several Market Opportunities
Consistency of Yield over Regions &
Years
High Untreated Yield
Zulu is a new soft biscuit winter wheat that has been added
to the HGCA Recommended List for 2014.
Limagrain have a strong association with the soft group 3 market and
have a history of offering grower’s good, reliable varieties that have
achieved good market share - Claire and Invicta.
Good Disease Resistance Profile
Zulu is a welcome addition to this portfolio and offers growers a very
sound variety with good agronomic traits and importantly several end
use marketable opportunities.
Good Grain Attributes
WOBM & SBCMV Resistance
* = Limited Data
Yield Potential
UK Treated Yield
East Region Treated
West Region Treated
North Region Treated
Yield (% mean of treated controls)
UK TREATED YIELD AND REGIONAL TREATED YIELD
102 102
100
104
*
100
ZULU
100
98
102
102
Invicta
102
KWS Croft
First Wheat Situation
Second/Continuous
Situation
Untreated Yield
Yield (% mean of treated controls)
FIRST, SECOND & CONTINUOUS YIELD AND UNTREATED YIELD
102
102
101
ZULU
102
99
90
98
102
100
91
90
Invicta
KWS Croft
Zulu is a high yielding biscuit winter wheat that has performed consistently over years,
regions and rotational situations. The variety also has a very good untreated yield
performance – an attribute of the variety’s robust disease resistance.
Rothwell, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, LN7 6DT
Tel: 01472 371661 - Email: [email protected]
www.nickerson.co.uk
ZULU
WINTER WHEAT
Breeder’s Reference: LGW54
Agronomic Characters
Parentage: (CEB99080 x Claire) x Robigus
UK Breeder & Agent: Limagrain UK
Y = Suited to that Market, B = Suitable for Blending into Export Cargoes, ( ) = Limited Data.
ZULU
Invicta
KWS Croft
Resistance to Lodging (no PGR)
Resistance to Lodging (with PGR)
Straw Height (cm)
Days to Ripening (+/- Controls)
6
8
88
+2
7
8
89
+3
5
6
87
+1
Resistance to:
Mildew
Yellow Rust
Brown Rust
Septoria tritici
Eyespot
Fusarium
WOBM
7
9
5
5
(7)
(6)
Yes
5
8
6
5
4
6
No
7
9
5
5
(6)
6
Yes
Grain Quality:
Endosperm Texture
Hagberg Falling Number (secs)
Specific Weight (kg/hl)
UK Biscuit
UK Distilling
UKS Soft Wheat Export
Soft
208
75.7
Y
(Y)
(Y)
Soft
229
75.1
Y
(Y)
B
Soft
200
76.3
Y
(Y)
Zulu has good straw attributes offering growers a taller strawed variety that responds well to PGR applications.
The variety offers growers a reliable disease resistance package with no serious disease threats, offering growers
security on farm. The variety has excellent yellow rust resistance, a disease that has caused many concerns on farm in
the last couple of years!
Zulu offers very good physical grain characteristics with a soft endosperm, making the variety potentially suitable for
the key marketable outlets; biscuit, distilling and export. The variety would also be suitable for the biofuel and the
large animal feed markets.
The variety has the attributes that growers required in the biscuit varieties of the past, offering growers a sound
variety to be grown on farm with good variety agronomic attributes and a range of marketable outlets for the grain.
Zulu is resistant to WOBM.
Zulu carries resistance for SBCMV (Soil-borne cereal mosaic virus). Although the distribution of this disease is low in
the UK, incidence would appear to be increasing and variety resistance is essential for growers in
the regions affected to guarantee good crop returns.
February 2014. Data from the HGCA Recommended Lists database, full data at www.hgca.com.
On the 1-9 scales, high figures indicate that a variety shows the character to a high degree.
Rothwell, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, LN7 6DT
Tel: 01472 371661 - Email: [email protected]
www.nickerson.co.uk