Yasenka’ is a new word in obtaining the ‘golden grain’ of durum wheat

Abstract

The purpose of the current study was to develop a new drought-resistant initial material, adapted to local conditions and spring durum wheat varieties on its basis. Due to the method of intraspecific hybridization and individual selection, there has been developed the spring durum wheat variety ‘Yasenka’ in the F5 hybrid combination obtained from crossing the varieties ‘Lilek x Nikolasha’. The developed variety is short-stemmed, middle maturing, resistant to drought and lodging. Its potential productivity is high, due to the maximum yield of 6.44 tons per hectare obtained in 2017 when sowing after peas. On average, over three years of competitive variety testing (2015–2017), its yield was 6.02 tons per hectare, which is higher than that of the varieties ‘Volnodonskaya’ on 1.08 and ‘Nikolasha’ on 0.40 tons per hectare. There has been found an advantage in terms of productivity over other varieties when sowing at a later date. Grain and pasta quality indicators are high. When evaluating grain according to the international standard ISO 21415-2, the variety ‘Yasenka’ showed a high Gluten Index (94) and a Minolta color index “b” (30), which corre- sponds to the world quality level. Under natural conditions, it is characterized by field resistance to the main leaf fungal diseases. Against the background of artificial infection, there has been established high resistance to head smut, powdery mildew and hard smut, resistance to septoria blotch and brown rust, moderate susceptibility to head blight. The variety has been included into the State List of Breeding Achievements of the Russian Federation since 2018 and it’s protected by the patent of the Russian Federation.

Allelic Variation of Glu-A1 and Glu-B1 Genes in Winter Durum Wheat and Its Effect on Quality Parameters

“…Lukyanenko National Grain Centre (NGC) in Krasnodar for many decades [ 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ]. The collection of winter durum wheat cultivars and lines developed at NGC is of particular interest for study as an example of highly adaptive local genotypes selected for specific agroclimatic conditions [ 28 , 29 , 30 ]. In addition, winter durum wheat is a relatively young and insufficiently studied crop that forms grain under conditions other than spring durum wheat; hence, the effect of HMW-GS alleles on pasta quality may be different.…”

Association of High-Molecular-Weight Glutenin Subunits with Grain and Pasta Quality in Spring Durum Wheat (Triticum turgidum spp. durum L.)

“…The leading breeding center in Russia, P.P. Lukyanenko National Grain Centre, has been developing high-yielding adaptive durum wheat cultivars for regional producers for a long time [26][27][28]. Despite the commercial success of these cultivars, the breeding of durum wheat in Russia has long been conducted without the use of the gluten index determination method.…”