Saatbau·Cereals
Tribonus
Tribonus — a mid-season awned winter triticale variety from Saatbau for feed use, with high resistance to brown rust, septoria and powdery mildew per the maker's description.
Main advantages
- Brown rust, septoria, powdery mildew — high resistance
- Highest grain test weight — maker's score
- Suited to bioethanol — maker's data
- Seeding rate 2.8–3.5 million seeds/ha — optimal sowing
Overview
About this product
Tribonus is a mid-season winter triticale variety for feed use, botanical variety erythrospermum (awned), with a compensatory type of yield formation. Per the maker's description, the variety is high-yielding and short-statured, has the highest grain test weight and high resistance to brown rust, septoria and powdery mildew.
The maker writes that short plant height provides lodging resistance, yet in the AGES classification it is rated 4, low to medium. Thousand-seed weight is 50–58 g and the variety is suitable for bioethanol production.
The seeding rate is 2.2–2.8 million seeds/ha for early sowing, 2.8–3.5 million for optimal and 3.5–4.0 million for late.
Specifications
Agronomic profile
| Brand | Saatbau |
|---|---|
| Maturity | Medium |
| Registered zones | Forest-Steppe, Polissia |
| Use | feed; suitable for bioethanol production |
| Test weight | highest grain test weight (per the maker's description) |
| Lodging resistance | rated 4, low to medium (AGES classification, Austria); the maker: short plant height provides lodging resistance |
| Plant height | short-statured |
| Disease resistance | high resistance to brown rust, septoria, powdery mildew |
| Seeding rate | early sowing: 2.2–2.8 million seeds/ha; optimal sowing: 2.8–3.5 million seeds/ha; late sowing: 3.5–4.0 million seeds/ha |
| Thousand-seed weight | 50–58 g |
| Other facts | Yield: record figures in moist regions (per the maker); Botanical variety: erythrospermum (awned); Yield formation type: compensatory |
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Questions & answers
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- Optimal sowing depends on crop, zone, and seasonal weather. Winter wheat in the Forest-Steppe: Sep 10–25. Corn: when soil is stable at +10°C at 10 cm depth. See the 12-month sowing calendar on the adam.ua blog.
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