{"id":2302,"date":"2025-03-17T07:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T05:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/defkalion-wheat-soft-wheat-of-excellent-adaptability-and-performance\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:39:32","slug":"defkalion-wheat-soft-wheat-of-excellent-adaptability-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/en\/defkalion-wheat-soft-wheat-of-excellent-adaptability-and-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"DEFKALION. wheat Soft wheat of excellent adaptability and performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">DEFKALION is the new Greek soft wheat variety created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianostrade.com\">IANOS IKE<\/a>, registered in the National and European Variety Catalogue, comes to provide solutions to various climatic and soil challenges by achieving the ideal combination of adaptability, resistance and Yelding.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P00408-135307-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2276\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P00408-135307-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P00408-135307-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P00408-135307-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P00408-135307-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P00408-135307-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Agronomic Characteristics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plant height: Medium-High<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PLANT: Upright with a rich leaf surface and strong stem<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ear: Long with awns<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grain: large size with significant vitreous<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u0391\u03bd\u03b8\u03b5\u03ba\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resistant to leaf Rusts and septoria<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resistant to Mildew<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resistant to soil diseases due to its strong root system.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resistant to loadging<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/304-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2278\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/304-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/304-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/304-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/304-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/304-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Defkalion&#8217;s strong root system ensures significant resistance to soil diseases and creates the conditions for high density of Tillers(Tillering). Its rich leaf surface with its slightly keeled leaves ensures direct exploitation of the sun&#8217;s rays resulting in better photosynthesis.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3191-scaled-e1742187534731-1024x672.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2290\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Defkalion is characterised by its early ear emergence, giving large sized ears with long, golden brown Awns which make it almost immune to ear diseases and highly resistant to drought.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3444-scaled-e1742188390454-1024x608.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2294\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The early maturity of Defkalion&#8217;s ears creates conditions for a fast harvest and a secure crop.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P00510-092313-scaled-e1742189077103-1024x572.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2296\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Defkalion as an alternative growth type variety takes excellent advantage of the low winter temperatures ensuring its early growth. Its adaptation to adverse weather and soil conditions is EXCELLENT. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Its yields are high and it gives a high weight fruit with a balance in its qualitative characteristics.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFKALION is the new Greek soft wheat variety created by IANOS IKE, registered in the National and European Variety Catalogue, comes to provide solutions to various climatic and soil challenges by achieving the ideal combination of adaptability, resistance and Yelding. Agronomic Characteristics Plant height: Medium-High PLANT: Upright with a rich leaf surface and strong stem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soft-wheat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianostrade.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}