Introduction to the Shannong 32 wheat variety, characteristics and yield performance

Shannong No. 32 - wheat seeds - Hefeng Seed Industry

Approval number: Lu Nong Shen 2016001.

Breeders: Shandong Agricultural University, Zibo Hefeng Seed Industry Agricultural Science Research Institute.

Characteristics: semi-winter type, seedlings semi-erect. Plant type semi-compact, leaf color dark green, leaves narrow, short and upright, relatively resistant to lodging, good maturity appearance. Average of two-year regional trial results: growth period comparable to Jimai 22; plant height 74.6 cm, maximum tillers per mu 1.074 million, effective spikes per mu 468,000, tiller-to-spike rate 43.6%; spike type spindle-shaped, grains per spike 33.1, thousand-grain weight 45.0 g, test weight 796.5 g/L; long awn, white glume, white grain, plump grains, semi-hard texture. 2015 inoculation disease resistance identification results from the Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences: immune to powdery mildew, moderately susceptible to stripe rust and sheath blight, highly susceptible to leaf rust and Fusarium head blight. Good winter cold resistance. Average test results of unified sampling from the 2013 and 2014 regional trials by the Ministry of Agriculture Grain Quality Supervision, Inspection and Testing Center (Tai'an): grain protein content 13.9%, wet gluten 35.9%, sedimentation value 33.1 ml, water absorption 59.1 ml/100 g, stability time 3.9 min, flour whiteness 74.9.

Yield performance: In the 2012-2014 Shandong Province wheat variety high-fertilizer group regional trial, the two-year average yield per mu was 601.87 kg, an increase of 5.61% over the control variety Jimai 22; in the 2014-2015 high-fertilizer group production trial, the average yield per mu was 596.33 kg, an increase of 7.41% over the control variety Jimai 22.