Tybalt
Tybalt

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.

PEDIGREE: ZE 95-2355 x Chablis
BREEDER: Wiersum BV, Netherlands
STATUS - HGCA (UK) Recommended List for late autumn and spring sowing. NABIM Group 2

VERY HIGH YIELDING

TYBALT Ashby Paragon
AUTUMN SOWN TREATED YIELD
(% mean of treated controls)		 103 102 94

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 (6) 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.

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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
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 data is a partial extraction from the NIAB/PGRO 2007 Spring Bean Recommended List available at www.niab.com or www.pgro.org unless otherwise stated.

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