NS Avantura: A New High Yielding Winter Wheat Cultivar

Winter wheat is the most important winter cereal crop in Serbia and in the Pannonian region. As the result of the changing climate, winter wheat showed high year to year variability among the growing seasons. Therefore, there is a constant need to release new cultivars with high yield potential and stability and good baking quality to maximaze grain value in local and regional markets. To adress this, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia developed a winter wheat line NS 4-18 that was released 2021 as a new cultivar NS Avantura. The cultivar NS Avantura was selected from a cross between two genotypes: NS 151-10 and Premio. The Commission for the registration of varieties of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of the Republic of Serbia conducted a trial at multiple locations in two years, and it was found that NS Avantura is a distinct, uniform and stable cultivar with higher grain yield than average of four check cultivars, and good technological quality. NS Avantura is a mid-early bread wheat cultivars with awns, adapted to different environments in the southern Pannonian Plain.