ABSTRACT
Pandora - INIA, new spring bread wheat cultivar for Chile

Mario Mellado Z.1*, Ricardo Madariaga B.1
 

Pandora-INIA is a spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar created by the Wheat Project at Quilamapu Regional Research Center of the National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA), Chillán, Chile, starting from a cross made in 1989. It is a semi-dwarf wheat with a plant height of 90-95 cm. The grain is brown and with an ovate shape. The spike is white and bearded. In trials its grain yield has varied between 7.5 and 10.8 t ha-1. The average bread volume, sedimentation value and grain protein were 722 cm3, 41.6 cm3, and 11.1% respectively, which classified this cultivar for direct use in bread making.

Keywords: spring wheat, Triticum aestivum L., new cultivar, Pandora-INIA.
1 Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Centro Regional de Investigación Quilamapu, Casilla 426, Chillán, Chile. Email: mmellado@inia.cl *Autor para correspondencia.