RGT KILIMANJARO

A mid-late winter wheat for flour production (class A), resistant to diseases, suitable for organic farms

• Technological quality class: BPS (Superior Bread Wheat)
• Very profitable and particularly stable for the environment
• Very high protein content
• Excellent stability and winter hardiness
• Excellent resistance to Fusarium
• Very low DON content

• High yield potential
• Heading time – quite late
• Maturity – late
• Stem length – quite short (3.5 points)
• Resistant to lodging – 6.5 points
• Winter hardiness – 7.5 points
• Resistance to grain germination in ears – good (6 points)
• Resistant to leaf diseases and fusarium wilt
• Very low DON content – not very sensitive (5.5 points)
• Tolerates cold well
• Late growth
• Very suitable for early sowing
• 1000 grain weight of – medium (5 points) (47.7 g)
• Hectoliter weight – high (8 points) (72.8 kg/hl)
• Excellent protein content
• Protein content – ​​high (6 points) (13.0-16.1%)
• Very good grain quality
• Flour with good baking properties
• Zeleny test – 30-50 ml
• Zeleny's test – 65.9 cm³
• Falling number – 261
• Gluten content – 35.0 %
• Starch content – ​​65.9 %
• Grain hardness – medium hard
• Tolerates the herbicide CHLORTOLURON
• Susceptible to the pest Cécidomyie orange

Resistance to diseases (when 1 – very susceptible, 9 – very resistant)

• Maturity – 6 points
• Plant height – 4 points
• Winter hardiness – 4 points
• Susceptibility to wheat stalk breakage – 5 points
• Susceptibility to powdery mildew – 3 points
• Susceptibility to leaf septoria – 4 points
• Susceptibility to wheat Helmintosporium – 5 points   
• Grude protein content – medium (5 points)
• Falling number – very high (9 points)
• Stability of falling number – ++
• Sedimentation – 7 points  
• Susceptibility to yellow rust – 4 points
• Susceptibility to brown rust – 3 points
• Susceptibility to ear septoria – 4 points

*R.A.G.T. According to Saaten Deutschland GmbH (1 = very low; 9 = very high)

Trials on the economic value (VCU) of this variety in Lithuania was carried out in 2019/2020, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022.

Trials were carried out in various plant variety testing departments:

• Plunges plant variety testing department (Plunges AVTS)

• Kaunas Plant variety testing Department (Kaunas AVTS)

• Pasvalio plant variety testing department (Pasvalio AVTS)

• Utena plant variety testing department (Utena AVTS)

Results of the trials of winter wheat RGT KILIMANJARO in Lithuania (1) – agronomic indexes

* Note.In Kaunas AVTS plant lodging was complete. The resistance to lodging of the standard varieties was also low, e.g. the Skagen variety was rated 1 for lodging resistance.

Results of the trials of winter wheat RGT KILIMANJARO in Lithuania (1) – grain quality

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