sepahan, a new bread wheat cultivar

sepahan is a new bread wheat cultivar derived from progenies of a cross made between azadi cultivar and some high yielding and resistant to rust advanced lines. all selections were made in kelardasht and iranshahr stations and early evaluations in karaj. it was also studied in regional uniform yield trials in moderate stations including kaboutar abad. results revealed that this line is more tolerant to drought, thus it's suitable for arid areas of iran and it has higher yield than check cultivar (mahdavi). it is of spring habit and early maturity, 95-100 cm plant height, grain color amber and thousand kernel weight of 40 gram. sepahan has grains with average protein and gluten content 10.3% and 23% respectively. based on these superiorities and good performance, the new line was released in 2006, under the name of sepahan