Yakub
emmer
wheat
This variety has been enrolled in the National Register of Varieties since 2009.
Yakub variety
This variety was obtained from selection within local plant lives of emmer wheat in southern Apennines.
Variety of winter habitus (to mature it needs cold accumulation, therefore its sowing has to be during autumn-winter seasons), semi-upright plant at the end of the tillering phase, leaves and culm large in size, non-pigmented vegetation.
The sowing
Recommended sowing density: 300-350 germinable seeds per square meter (that is 130-160 kg / ha of hulled seeds), using the sowing in rows.
This variety is winter cold resistant, it is suitable for autumn-winter sowing in all Italian cereal areas.
The plant
It is large, with medium/late cycle.
This variety is suitable for winter grazing (which slows down its vegetative development and favors its tillering) and to the alfalfa overseeding during February-March (bulature).
It is recommended to limit nitrogen fertilizations to reduce the risk of lodging. However, a good availability of nitrogen in the soil during the final phase of the cycle (good contents of organic substance or crop residues of leguminous as previous crop) favors the production of vitreous and semi-vitreous grain suitable for transformation into semolinas.
The spike
It is white, large, semi-compact; its awns are white, long and weakly open wide from the axis of the spike.
Caryopsis is big (40-44 mg), with fluff at the tip, with mixed rift (powdery and vitreous).
It is suitable for the production of whole, semi-pearled and pearled grain and during milling for the production of flours and semolinas.
