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Some aspects of wheat breeding at the Agricultural Institute Osijek

Winter wheat breeding at the Agricultural Institute Osijek has been continuously conducting since 1931. Wheat breeding work always was oriented toward creation of new wheat cultivars characterized by improved grain yield and technological quality, with better stability and adaptability in wide range of environmental conditions. The first successful wheat cultivar created at the Agricultural Institute Osijek (OS-cultivar) was U1 (multiplication 1) or Osijek awnless, released in production in 1936. It was the first OS-wheat cultivar with (for that time) high production potential realized through wide production in almost two next decades. Up today, at the Agricultural Institute Osijek more than 27 000 crossing combinations on wheat were made and extensive breeding work has been carried out. During more than 80 years of wheat breeding, generations of breeders were implementing scientific knowledge and methodology as well as their own professional skills and personal devotion in creation of new OS-wheat cultivars. As a result of that work, up to now to the Agricultural Institute Osijek had been recognized 116 winter wheat cultivars in Croatia and 47 cultivars abroad. In last more than 20 years OS-wheat cultivars have been sowing on 50-60% of wheat areas in Republic of Croatia with increasing trend of sowing areas in abroad (BiH, Kosovo, Slovenia, Romania, Turkey and Macedonia).

Breeding; winter wheat; cultivars

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