Chilton
Status: Recommended List Trials
Chilton is a very high yielding NABIM Group 2 winter wheat.
Chilton is in Recommended List Trials this autumn for potential recommendation for 2012/13.
Chilton has good bread-making potential, good resistance to lodging and a reliable disease package with outstanding resistance to eyespot and yellow rust. It also has an excellent Specific Weight and Hagberg Falling Number.
Chilton has been classified as a ukp bread wheat making it suitable for export.
The P/L score of approx. 200 and the W score of approx. 0.5 are well within the min/max scores required for export.
Parentage: Solstice x Option
Status: Recommended List Trials
Chilton has shown a high yield potential in National List Trials, performing at least 5% higher than Einstein in both years of testing, as well as having an untreated mean which is 4% higher.
The 4 year data indicates that Chilton will be 1% higher yielding than Panorama.
In NL2 last year, Chilton produced the highest tonnes/ha in England at Elsoms, Spalding. It was only beaten by Oakley at the East Lothian Site. This demonstrates its potential to produce very high yields of very marketable grain.
Grain Quality
| Variety | Endosperm Texture | Protein Content | Hagberg Falling Number | Specific Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHILTON | Hard | 11.9 | 270 | 78.5 |
| Einstein | Hard | 12.3 | 263 | 77.6 |
Chilton is a hard textured bread-making wheat with a high specific weight and good Hagberg
Falling Number. It produces a loaf of bread of a “high standard” with a strong, resilient crumb
structure (Campden information).
Disease Resistance
| Disease Resistance | Eyespot | Septoria Tritici | Brown Rust | Yellow Rust | Mildew |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHILTON | 9 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 |
| Einstein | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
Chilton has a good overall disease resistance package. It has an excellent score for Eyespot which is better than all listed varieties and candidates – this resistance is not based on the Rendezvous resistance gene therefore offering a novel type of eyespot resistance.
Straw Characteristics
Chilton has a strong, stiff stem which has shown very limited lodging in trials.
It has demonstrated less lodging than Einstein.
Chilton also seems to perform extremely well as a second wheat (Chilton 102%, Einstein 99% and Solstice 98%) this could be partly attributed to its high Eyespot resistance. Chilton is not yet National Listed, but this is expected in September 2011.
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