Detailed Introduction to the Ningmai 11 Wheat Variety

Ningmai 11 (NB-3) is a weak-springness, early-to-mid-maturing @#@245@#@ new variety developed by the Grain Crops Research Institute of the Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences through systematic selection from a variant strain of Ningmai 8.

This variety has upright seedlings, dark green leaves, relatively strong tillering ability, a compact plant type, and an even spike layer. The plant height is 85 cm, the spike is oval-shaped, with long awns, white glumes, and white kernels. It has relatively good seed-setting ability, vitreous kernels, and good plumpness. The number of spikes per mu is 350,000, the number of filled grains per spike is 33, and the 1,000-grain weight is nearly 40 g. It is moderately susceptible to Fusarium head blight, susceptible to wheat spindle streak mosaic virus disease, and has relatively good tolerance to fertilizer and resistance to lodging. The two-year average quality test results are 14.91% crude protein, 33.2% wet gluten, and 6.6 minutes stability time, belonging to the medium-gluten wheat variety category.

This variety participated in the Jiangsu Province regional trials from 2001 to 2003, with a two-year average yield of 422.83 kg per mu; in the 2002-2003 production trial, the average yield was 449 kg per mu. It is suitable for planting under medium-to-high fertility conditions in the Yanhuai area of Yancheng, Jiangsu Province (including Dafeng, Yandu, and northern Dongtai and Jianhu, and southern Sheyang and Funing), with sowing in late October.