Ben-David Lab
Winter Cereals Research and Breeding
Bread Wheat Breeding
Cultivar Name: Ruta
Breeders name: Dr. Uri Kushnir and Kamal Nashef
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Bread wheat cultivar, intermediate-late phenology, semi-dawrf.
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Multi purpose usage (grains and animal feed).
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Supreme baking quality achieved via mutation in storage proteins (Glutenins and Gliadins). Bright grain color, suitable for a whole meal baking products.
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The first commercial wheat cultivar that was developed by cell engineering (tissue culture) and was introduced successfully to agriculture.
Cultivar Name: Bar-Nir
Breeders name: Dr. Uri Kushnir and Kamal Nashef
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Bread wheat cultivar, early phenology, high grains yield, lodging resistance.
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Resistance to Leaf rust and Yellow rust.
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A product of cytoplasmic breeding: the wheat cytoplasm was substituted by the wild wheat relative Aegilops variabilis cytoplasm.
Cultivar Name: Binyamin
Breeders name: Dr. Uri Kushnir and Kamal Nashef
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Bread wheat cultivar, early-intermediate phenology, dwarf, with high yield of grains and biomass, lodging resistance, heat tolerance, High protein content.
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Resistance to Yellow rust.
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Hybridization derivative of wild Aegilops speltoides with bread wheat.
Cultivar Name: Tishrey
Breeders name: Dr. Uri Kushnir and Kamal Nashef
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Bread wheat cultivar, early-intermediate phenology, semi-dawrf.
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Multi purpose (grains and animal feed), lodging resistance.
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Resistance to Leaf rust and Yellow rust.
Cultivar Name: Aviv
Breeders name: Dr. Uri Kushnir and Kamal Nashef
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Bread wheat cultivar with ultra-early phenology, semi-dwarf, high grain yield,
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Lodging resistance, high gluten index.
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Hybridization derivative of wild Triticum dicoccoides with bread wheat.
Cultivar Name: Mispo 37
Breeders name: Dr. Uri Kushnir and Kamal Nashef
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Bread wheat cultivar with very late phenology, high biomass production and high dry matter yield.
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Lodging resistance, high tillering, resistance to all rusts and powdery mildew.
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Hybridization derivative of wild Triticum dicoccoides with bread wheat.
