WestBred LLC - Southern Great Plain

WESTBRED LLC [p. 16-17]

 

Northern Great Plains - 1725 1st Ave. N., #G, Fargo, ND, 58103, USA. [p. 16]

Greg Fox and John Davies.

Dr. John Davies has joined our program as a wheat breeder and will head up the Hard White Spring Wheat program at this location and assist in all breeding projects. John has a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Plant Breeding and Genetics from North Dakota State University and a B.Sc. in Agriculture from the University of Western Australia.

We have released two new HRSW cultivars that possess improved scab tolerance combined with excellent standability, early maturity, and high protein. Rush has better adaptation to North Dakota and Chamberlin is better adapted to South Dakota. Certified seed will be available through the WestBred Associates in this region.

 

Southern Great Plainss - 14604 South Haven Road, Haven, KS 67543, USA. [p. 16]

Sid Perry, Roy Dare, and Robynn Sims.

 

New cultivars.

Keota, a HRWW that was tested as HV9W98-143R. Keota is best adapted to the western high plains. Keota was derived from the cross 'Jagger/Custer'. The cultivar has strong straw, good shattering resistance, moderate resistance to WSMV, and good resistance to stripe rust.

Tarkio, a HRWW developed from the cross 'OK90604/KSSB-369-7//SnowWhite' was tested as HV9W99-191R. This cultivar has a strong foliar protection bundle and will be used primarily in blends for north central and northeast Kansas.

Shavano, a HWWW developed from a bulk population was tested as HV9W98-926W. Shavano has exceptional milling and baking properties suitable for whole-wheat applications.

 

Pacific Northwest - 81 Timberline Drive, Bozeman, MT 59718, USA. [p. 16-17]

Dale Clark, Dan Biggerstaff, Craig Cook, and Gail Sharp.

 

New cultivars.

Ledger, a HRWW that was tested as BZ9W96-788-d, is an early maturing, semidwarf cultivar adapted to the Golden Triangle area of Montana. Ledger was developed from the cross 'BZ9W92-709/MTSF1142'. BZ9W92-709 is a solid-stemmed lines selected by WestBred from the cross 'Hatton/SS-14'. SS-14 is a WestBred selection from a composite cross winter wheat population that resulted from the cross of WestBred's hard red winter Male Sterile Facilitated Recurrent Populations (MSFRSP) with the wheat stem sawfly-tolerant spring wheat cultivars Fortuna, Lew, and Rambo. MTSF 1142 is a solid-stemmed line selected by Montana State University from the cross 'Lew/Tiber//Redwin'.

Waikea, a HWSW, was tested as BZ998-447W. Waikea is tolerant to the current biotypes of Hessian fly and the current races of stripe rust found in the PNW. This cultivar is a high-yielding, mid-tall, low PPO, semidwarf that was developed from the cross 'Spillman/WestBred 906R'.

Corbin is a HRSW that was tested as BZ996-434. This cultivar was derived from the cross 'Border/Conan'. Corbin has shown high yields with moderate tolerance to the wheat stem sawfly, although it is not solid stemmed. The quality is similar to other HRSWs in its market area.

WestBred, LLC continues to breed for high quality hard white wheat, along with the other market classes found in the PNW. The WestBred hard white spring cultivars Snow Crest and Pristine are currently being produced under IP programs for the U.S. milling and baking industry.

One-gene, Imazamox-tolerant SWWW will be released in 2008, and two-gene tolerant hard red and hard white spring wheat cultivars will be released in 2007.

Stripe rust continues to be a challenge to the breeding program in the PNW. This program coöperates with the Southwest program run by Kim Shantz in Arizona and California. Through joint efforts the programs will be releasing hard spring wheat cultivars with at least two genes for stripe rust resistance in 2007.

In addition, two stripe rust-tolerant SWWW lines are being increased for possible release in 2007.