PANDA (ORG)

An early/medium early buckwheat with good resistance to diseases, spring frosts and drought during flowering

• Stem abundant in foliage
• Relatively resistant to seed scattering
• 1000 seed weight – 25-32 g
• Hull content – 18-24 %
• Protein content – 11.9 %
• Starch content – 57. 2 %  
• Hectoliter weight – 57.0 kg/hl
• Also, could be grown at heavier soils

• Grows rapidly, suppresses weeds
• Buckwheat roots dissolve hardly available phosphorus compounds, making them available to the following plants

• Seed yield – 1.5-2.3 t/ha
• Vegetation period – 90-105 days
• Early/mid-early
• Resistant to spring frosts and droughts during flowering
• Resistant to diseases
• Plant height – 100-115 cm
• Abundant rich green foliage
• Fruit – a blackish wingless nut
• Partial resistance to grain scattering is higher than that of 'KORA' variety
• 1000 seeds weight – 25-32 g
• Hull content – 17-22 %
• 'PANDA' is better suited to heavier soils

*Based on variety testing by breeders Małopolska Hodowla Roślin, Poland

• Average grain yield (at 14 % moisture content) – 3.69 t/ha
• Vegetation period – 87 days (from seed germination to full maturity)
• Plant height – 122 cm
• Resistance to lodging – 7.5 points out of 9 (when 9 points – a very resistant variety)
• Weight of 1000 grains – 27.5 g
• Protein content DM – 11.9 %
• Starch content DM – 57.2 %
• Hull content – 22.4 (18-24) %

*Variety description of buckwheat varieties in the National List of Plant Varieties, 2016.

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam