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Parentage: Falstaff x Shannon
Key Benefits
- Reliable performer - tried and tested with a proven track record on farm
- Good all-round disease resistance - easy to grow
- Free tillering, competitive variety - gives results even in tough seedbeds
Yield
Gladiator is valued as a consistently high yielding wheat; combining good standing, robust disease resistance and high specific weight. It performs well as a first or second wheat.
Agronomy
Gladiator is a medium-fast developing variety with good tillering capacity. It may be drilled from mid September to latest safe sowing date of the end of January. However optimal performance comes from crops sown in mid-September to late October.
Gladiator has good all round disease resistance with no weaknesses to the major cereal diseases.
 | Gladiator | Oakley |
| Mildew | 6 | 6 |
| Yellow Rust | 8 | 6 |
| Brown Rust | 8 | 6 |
| Septoria Tritici | 5 | 5 |
| Eyespot | 5 | 5 |
| Resistance to lodging (-PGR) | 6 | 6 |
| Resistance to lodging (+PGR) | 8 | 7 |
| Ripening (days +/- Claire) | 0 | +1 |
Gladiator is resistant to Chlorotoluron
Quality
Gladiator produces a bold grain with a high specific weight.
| Gladiator | Oakley |
| Protein content (%) | 12.0 | 10.9 |
| Hagberg Falling Number | 263 | 165 |
| Specific weight (kg/hl) | 77.1 | 75.5 |
| 1000 grain weight | 46.8 | (48.5) |
| Chopin alveograph W | 95 | (120) |
| Chopin alveograph P/L | 0.7 | (0.5) |
( ) limited data
Data a partial abstraction from HGCA Recommended List Winter Wheat 2008/09.
The full database can be consulted at www.hgca.com
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