Search by Crop & Variety: Scorpio Hard Red Winter Wheat
Overview
Overview:
Scorpio is a semi-dwarf, hard red winter wheat with short plant height (avg. 35 inches), mid-season maturity, common head type and white straw and glumes. This variety is tolerant to low pH soils, and combines a high yield potential with good stripe rust resistance.
Area of Adaptation and primary use of the variety:
Scorpio is best adapted to to the >16 inch rainfall zones of Washington, and would do well under no-till production, it is targeted to replace Keldin acres.
Scorpio is primarily used for bread production.
Variants and Frequency:
Phenotypic Variant(s): 1/35,000 in any combination of tall white awned common plants, awnless white chaff club heads, awned white chaff club heads, and awnless white chaff common heads.
Seed Variant: 12 white seed per pound.
Resistance to diseases and pests:
Stripe Rust Resistance:
Scorpio shows good Stripe Rust Resistance, during trials it showed an infection type of 2, and disease severity of 5-10%.
Low pH soils:
Ratings are comparable to Norwest 553.
Foot Rot Resistance:
Scorpio doesn’t carry the gene for foot rot resistance.
Cephalosporium Stripe:
Scorpio has not been tested for C. Stripe resistance under field conditions.
Nematodes:
Scorpio has not been tested under greenhouse conditions for resistance to nematodes.
Winter Hardiness:
Based on field observations Scorpio did not suffer and injury due to cold conditions of the winter and is considered to be cold tolerant.