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Parentage: (Cantata ‘sib’ x Genesis) x Pinder
Key Benefits
- Consistently high yielding soft feed wheat
- Good disease resistance - particularly to brown rust
- Top 2nd wheat - allowing for flexibility of rotation
Yield
Ambrosia is a high yielding feed wheat which has performed consistently well over a range of locations and over years. It performs equally well on light and heavy land.
Ambrosia has proven to be a top performer in the second wheat slot, and it is one of the highest yielding 2nd wheats on the HGCA Recommended List for 2008/09.
Agronomy
Ambrosia combines high yields with excellent standing and good disease resistance.
Ambrosia also has a long grain filling period, a contributing factor to its high yield.
Ambrosia gives flexibility with respect to drilling date – optimal performance will come from a drilling date between mid September and late October, but Ambrosia can perform well when drilled late after root crops.
Ambrosia is resistant to Chlorotoluron.
 | Ambrosia | Alchemy | Oakley | Einstein |
| Resistance to lodging - PGR | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| Resistance to lodging + PGR | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 |
| Maturity (days +/- Claire) | 0 | +2 | +1 | 0 |
| Mildew | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| Yellow Rust | 6 | 9 | 6 | 6 |
| Brown Rust | 7 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| Septoria tritici | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Eyespot | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
Ambrosia has good overall disease resistance.
A standard fungicide and PGR programme should be sufficient in a normal season. Control of Septoria tritici may require special attention in a high risk season.
Quality
Ambrosia is a soft feed wheat which produces a good grain quality bold grain with a high specific weight.
Ambrosia is suitable for export 
| Ambrosia | Alchemy | Robigus | Einstein |
| Protein content (%) | 11.9 | 11.8 | 11.8 | 12.2 |
| Hagberg Falling Number | 190 | 247 | 206 | 266 |
| Specific weight (kg/hl) | 76.8 | 77.3 | 76.5 | 77.2 |
| 1000 grain weight | (53.1) | (49.1) | 45.5 | 50.7 |
| Zeleny volume | - | 12.2 | 24.7 | 42.7 |
| Chopin alveograph W | (72) | 55 | 101 | 171 |
| Chopin alveograph P/L | (0.3) | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
( ) denotes limited data
Data a partial abstraction from HGCA Recommended List Winter Wheat 2008/9.
The full database can be consulted at www.hgca.com
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