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Parentage: Reaper x Rialto
Key Benefits
- Top class Group 1 breadmaking wheat
- Reliability in the field and at the mill
- Solid yields and good standing
Mascot combines high protein levels, stable Hagberg and good specific weight, ensuring that full Group 1 specification can be met more reliably – even in difficult harvest years such as 2007.
Yield
Mascot offers consistent yields across years, UK regions and soil types, it has a 4% yield advantage over Malacca.
Agronomy
Mascot has sound disease resistance, with no specific weaknesses and the best eyespot resistance in its class. This is reinforced by its high untreated yield and excellent straw strength.
| | Mascot | Xi19 | Solstice |
| Mildew | 6 | 7 | 5 |
| Yellow Rust | 5 | 9 | 9 |
| Brown Rust | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| Septoria tritici | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Eyespot | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| Resistance to Lodging (-PGR) | 7 | 4 | 8 |
| Resistance to Lodging (+PGR) | 8 | 6 | 9 |
| Ripening (days +/- Claire) | -1 | 0 | +1 |
Quality
Mascot produces a white flour widely acceptable to UK millers, with consistently good breadmaking characteristics. Mascot is suitable for both UK and export markets.
Mascot provides a good opportunity for growers to maximise premium earnings.
Below, the percentage of submitted samples from Mascot and Solstice that met the Group 1 specification of:
Hagberg Falling Number - greater than 250 seconds
Specific Weight - greater than 76 kg/hl
Protein - greater than 13.0% dry matter
Source: HGCA Quality Survey 2007
 | Mascot | Xi19 | Solstice |
| Protein content (%) | 12.6 | 11.8 | 12.3 |
| Hagberg Falling Number | 278 | 274 | 272 |
| Specific weight (kg/hl) | 77.3 | 75.9 | 78.4 |
| 1000 grain weight | (51.5) | 51.8 | 50.5 |
| Zeleny volume | (51.7) | 46.7 | 51.0 |
| Chopin alveograph W | (231) | 178 | 189 |
| Chopin alveograph P/L | (0.7) | 0.7 | 0.7 |
( ) 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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