EIP Quality Assurance for Bread Wheat
Process development to improve and stabilise baking quality and yield in Hessian variety mixtures and wheat populations
Background information & challenges
- Stagnation of average yields for organic wheat in Germany, currently approx. 37 dt/ha (2019)
- Counterproductive cultivation of organic wheat: too much above- and below-ground competition for light and nutrients.
- Increase yields in wheat cultivation with varieties from organic breeding that have been adapted for this purpose.
Planned innovation & aims
- Objective: Determination of yield potential per plant for systematic yield increase in the field
- Selection of productive varieties
- Exploiting the yield potential of organic wheat varieties
- Innovative approach: Honeycomb-breeding method
Implementation
- The quality-focused organic wheat population (Liocharls, FZD) and the yield-focused conventionally bred feed wheat variety Elixer-C as a control were grown under optimal conditions to develop the yield (75 cm plant spacing in triangular association).
Lead Partner
Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
Department for agronomy and plant breeding II
Professorship of Organic Farming with focus on sustainable soil use
Dr. Ludger Linnemann (Lead Partner)
and
M.Sc. Christine Hesse
0641/ 99-37731
ludger.linnemann@agrar.uni-giessen.de
Project duration
2018 - 2021
Funding