CULTIVAR RELEASE – CD 120 – wheat cultivar, standard quality soft, for the Southern Region of Brazil

CD 120 – wheat cultivar, standard quality soft, for the Southern Region of Brazil

Volmir Sergio Marchioro, Francisco de Assis Franco, Tatiane Dalla Nora, Edson Feliciano de Oliveira, Ivan Schuster, AdrielEvangelista, Renato da Rocha and Mateus Polo

ABSTRACT – The cultivar CD 120, developed by the Cooperativa Central de Pesquisa Agrícola (COODETEC) is suitable forcultivation in the VCU wheat-producing regions 1 and 2 of the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. It is tolerantto the major wheat diseases and pre-harvest germination and has soft wheat quality and a 6.5 % higher grain yield (3.678 kgha-1) than the control.

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