Description:
Strong plant with moderate bushiness (3-5 stems per plant). Culm long (120-180 cm), mostly hollow, rarely solid, but with small open space in the center; has 6-7 internodes and large nodes. Leaves pubescent, having small, velvety hairs; rarely glabrous. Leaf blade 20-34 cm in length, 1.0-1.5 cm in width. Auricles often ciliate. Ear simple or branchy, 15 cm in length, 1.5 in cm width, drooping, heavy (up to 70 caryopses). Ear includes 19-33 spikelets consisting of 5-7 flowers (developed 5 caryopses). Rachis is strong, its segments pubescent. Barb with setas up to 1 mm in length occurs at the base of spikelets. Spikelet glumes comparatively short (8-11 mm), puffy, asymmetrical, with 5-7 veins. Carina is wide, sharply defined. Carinal tooth is short, acerate. Lemma is roundish, gibbous, longer than glume. Aristas 8-20 cm in length, thick, rough. Each flower protected by bicarinate inner palea and aristate lemma, which is bigger. Aristas are long, exceeding the ear in length, scabrous or glabrous, slightly divergent or parallel. Seeds are short (5.5-9.0 mm in length), 3.0-4.1 mm in width, roundish or oval, farinaceous. Weight of 1000 seeds is 35-45 g. Most widespread varieties include Donskoi yantar. and Novinka 4.
Creation:
Probably descended from T. durum.
Country:
Russia
Yeld:
Productivity in 3.5-3.6 (up to 9.2) tons per hectare.

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