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AGT-Rio
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Good disease resistance package for higher yielding environments
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Excellent stripe rust and powdery mildew resistance
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Very high yields in medium-high rainfall or disease-pressured environments
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An improved alternative to RockStar and Catapult
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Moderately short plant height with good lodging tolerance
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APW quality classification in SA/Vic with an excellent physical grain quality package
For full details download the AGT-Rio fact sheet
Seed Availability
Please contact an AGT Affiliate or your local retailer for seed.
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AGT-Rio can be traded between growers upon the completion of a License Agreement as part of AGT’s Seed Sharing™ initiative.
PBR and EPR
AGT-Rio is protected by Plant Breeders Rights (PBR) and all production (except seed saved for planting) is liable to an End Point Royalty (EPR), which funds future plant breeding.
AGT-Rio growers will be subject to a Grower License Agreement that acknowledges that an EPR of $3.90/tonne + GST must be paid on all production other than seed saved for planting.
Breeders comments
Varieties suited to the traditional ‘early sowing’ window of late April to early May are consistently used by growers to help maximise over-all farm yield. AGT-Rio fits this sowing window, and offers improvements over varieties such as RockStar and Catapult which have been used for this purpose.
AGT-Rio has a maturity similar to RockStar and Catapult, and is particularly well suited to medium-high rainfall situations.
A key requirement for success in higher rainfall environments is disease resistance, and AGT-Rio holds excellent stripe rust and powdery mildew resistance in particular.
Compared with RockStar, AGT-Rio offers vast improvements in stripe rust resistance, better sprouting tolerance, higher levels of powdery mildew and septoria tritici resistance, higher test weights and higher grain yield in early sown, high yield potential trials.
Versus Catapult, AGT-Rio is much higher yielding, has better lodging tolerance, and offers much higher stripe rust and powdery mildew resistance.
AGT-Rio exhibits a compact plant type with good tolerance to lodging which is a key trait for success in higher yielding environments. AGT-Rio has an APW quality classification in SA/Vic and produces grain with low screenings losses and high test weights.