Seltso - a new perspective variety of spring triticale
Since 2003, the Volga Federal Agrarian Research Center has been breeding spring triticale to create varieties adapted to the conditions of the Non-Chernozem Region of Russia. The work is based on the ecological principle: the creation, review, and selection of breeding material in parallel at several points. In cooperation with the Republican Unitary Enterprise «Research and Practical Center of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus for Arable Farming» a new variety of spring triticale Seltso is developed. It started in 2006 (crossing) and in 2020 the variety was submitted to the State variety testing. The Seltso variety combines high productivity potential, and yield stability, and traditionally the Upper Volga FARC is distinguished by high resistance to a group of diseases. The new variety is mid-ripening, for 3 years at the time of transfer to the State variety testing, its growing season averaged 103 days, which is 2 days longer than the medium-early standard variety Dobroe. For the period 2018 - 2020 the yield of the Seltso variety was 51.1 dt/ha, 2.8 dt/ha (5.8%) higher than the Dobroe standard. Yield potential is high. Under the conditions of the Upper Volga FARC, the maximum yield was gathered over the competitive variety testing in 2017 - 74.9 dt/ha. In the ecological test of the Republic of Belarus, conducted between 2018 and 2020, the average yield was 72.1 dt/ha, with 71.3 dt/ha of the Uzor variety (standard of the Republic of Belarus). The maximum yield gathered in the ecological variety testing of Belarus was 85.4 q/ha. Variety Seltso has a high resistance to lodging (8.2 points). The incidence of the most common and harmful diseases did not exceed 5%. The new variety is quite tall, the average height is 89 cm, and the stem height varies from 78 to 127 cm over the years. Grain characteristics: 1000-kernel weight - 45.8 g; crude protein in the grain - 13.6%; grain unit 720 g/l.