Introduction Of New Wheat Cultivar, Hamoon In Sistan

Hamoon is a new bread wheat cultivar derived from progenies of a cross made between Falat and Roshan. It is of spring habit and early maturity, 90-100 cm plant height, white spikes and thousand kernel weight of 40-45 gram. It is tolerant to lodging and environmental stresses(drought and salinity) as will as yellow rust. Hamoon has hard grains of amber colour with averae protein content of 10.5%. All selection and early evaluations, were made in Zahak Agricultural Research Station, Zabol. It was also studied in regional uniform yield trials in warm and dry zone's station for adaptation and yield stability (See Tables 1 to 4 in Farsi text).