Examples of texture evolution occurring during annealing of low alloyed Zr sheets submitted to different cold rolling schedules with a moderate thickness reduction (40 and 50%) are presented here. It is shown that the stability of the texture during primary recrystallisation previously reported for cold rolled Zirconium and Titanium~(1-3) is not a general rule. The differences in texture evolution behavior exposed here are linked to the various deformation microstructures which exhibit distinctive heterogeneity distributions. In the case of 40% cross rolling there is little fragmentation, which induces an oriented nucleation, whereas transverse rolling creates heterogeneous microstructures which favor the abnormal growth of subgrains with specific orientation.
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