عباس شهباز پورشهبازی

The Shush variety with CBRD-3/STORK × DICOCCOIDES pedigree has come out from AREO-ICARDA Irrigated Spring Bread Wheat Improvement Project (AIISWIP) for low latitude of west and center of Asia and north of Africa. The cultivar was selected from adaptability tests in hot and dry climates in the south of the countries during two consecutive years (2006-2008) which carried out at six stations located in the hot and dry climates of Iran. The results showed that the Shush in the evaluating stations had stabile grain yield. High grain yield potential, earliness, resistance to terminal heat stress and shattering, high level of resistance to different stripe rust races, good grain quality were there best characteristics of Shush. This cultivar adapted to irrigated wheat growing areas in the Southern Dry and Warm Agro-climatic Zone in Iran especially in Khozestan, West Fars, Warm areas in Lorestan, Kerman and Kermanshah, provinces.