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THE Council of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, has decided to offer for sale about a hundred quarters of Steadfast, a winter wheat bred by Prof. F. L. Engledow, of the Cambridge University Plant Breeding Institute. Hitherto the wheat has been grown in the Institute's trials under the number 198 (20c). Orders are invited from members of the Agricultural Seed Trade Association, National Association of Corn and Agricultural Merchants, National Association of British and Irish Millers, and other established dealers in seed corn. Steadfast is the outcome of a cross between Little Joss and Victor, and as regards general habit, growth and type of ear is intermediate between the parent varieties. It possesses the excellent tillering properties of Little Joss, and ripens at the same time, and requires the same seed rate. The straw is shorter and its resistance to lodging is superior to that of Little Joss, but it has the same resilience and excellent thatching and feeding properties of that variety. As regards milling quality, Steadfast approximates the bread–making value of the ‘softer’ English wheats; it does not attain the exceptional quality of Yeoman or Holdfast. It is particularly suited to light and medium soils, but also thrives on the Black Pen, where its resistance to yellow rust will be specially valuable.
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Winter Wheat Seed. Nature 148, 405 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148405c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148405c0