Resumen de Urbina S2007: nueva variedad de trigo harinero para la región "El Bajío"

Ernesto Solís Moya, Julio Huerta Espino, Patricia Pérez Herrera, Aquilino Ramírez Ramírez, Héctor Eduardo Villaseñor Mir, Eduardo Espitia Rangel, A. Borodanenko

• Recent breeding efforts at the ´El Bajio´ Experimental Station of the National Research Institute for Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock (INIFAP-Mexico) have allowed for the development of high yielding wheat cultivars with high levels of disease resistance. Among those superior genoypes is the new cultivar ´Urbina S2007´, that display higher yield (4%) than the best commercial cv. Barcenas S2002, it display higher resistance to yellow stripped and leaf rust and is of similar grain quality. The seed of Urbina S2007 is available for wheat producers of El Bajio region of central Mexico.