Art
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Art is a hard red winter wheat bred and developed by ApriPro. Art is a semidwarf variety similar in height to PostRock. Art is approximately 2 days earlier in heading than PostRock. Art is a high tillering variety which produces smallish flag leaves, and small spikes. Art has white chaff at maturity. It has medium maturity and excellent straw strength. Art is best adapted to north central Oklahoma, south central, central and eastern Kansas. Art has resistance to leaf rust, stripe rust and stem rust. Art is resistant to Soil Borne Wheat Mosaic Virus and intermediate to Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus. Art has an intermediate reaction to Powdery mildew and is moderately resistant to Tan Spot and moderately susceptible to Speckled leaf blotch. Art has tolerance to aluminum toxicity caused by low soil pH. Juvenile growth habit is semierect. Plant color at boot stage is dark green. Flag leaf at boot stage is erect and twisted. Auricle anthocyanin is present and auricle hairs are absent. Waxy bloom is present on the head, stem and flag leaf sheath. Anther color is yellow. Head shape is tapering, middense and awned. Glumes are glabrous, narrow in width and short in length with wanting shoulders and acuminate beaks. Seed shape is ovate. Seed crease depth is shallow and width is narrow. Seed cheeks are rounded. Art has been uniform and stable since 2006. Less than 0.8% of the plants were rogued from the Breeder seed increase in 2006. Approximately 90% of the variant plants were taller height wheat plants and approximately 10% were awnletted wheat plants. Up to 1.0% variant plants may be encountered in subsequent generations. Plant Variety Protection is anticipated in the Fall or 2007 and Art may only be sold as a class of Certified Seed.
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