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Parentage: 98ST08 x Aardvark
Key Benefits
- Top quality Group 2 milling wheat with an excellent agronomic package
- Very early maturing offering a secure harvest
- Excellent disease resistance - reliability on farm
Yield
Marksman has the unique combination of high yields and high protein content.
Along with good specific weight and stable Hagberg falling number, this enables the milling specification to be met more reliably.
Quality
Marksman has shown very good baking performance from 4 years of independent and official testing, having essential quality attributes regarded as highly important by the major end users.
 | Marksman | Cordiale | Einstein | Solstice |
| Protein content | 13.0 | 12.6 | 12.2 | 12.3 |
| HFN | 247 | 304 | 266 | 272 |
| Specific Weight | 77.0 | 79.3 | 77.2 | 78.4 |
Agronomy
Marksman’s excellent disease resistance, particularly to brown rust (from the Pch1gene) provides protection as
demonstrated by the high untreated yield figure.
| Marksman | Cordiale |
| Mildew | 7 | 7 |
| Yellow Rust | 7 | 9 |
| Brown Rust | 8 | 4 |
| Septoria nodorum | (8) | 5 |
| Septoria tritici | 5 | 5 |
| Eyespot | (7) | 5 |
| Untreated Yield % | 87 | 78 |
( ) limited data
Data a partial abstraction from the HGCA Recommended List Winter Wheat 2008/09.
The full database can be consulted at www.hgca.com
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