SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: WERA81 : Systems to Improve End-use Quality of Wheat
- Period Covered: 01/01/2003 to 12/01/2003
- Date of Report: 06/30/2004
- Annual Meeting Dates: 02/03/2004 to 02/04/2004
Participants
Joe Anderson, Alice Andlovec, Byung-Kee Baik, Keith Bailey, Kerry Balow, Michael Barnett, Cecile Becker, Art Bettge, Luke Burger, John Burns, Cathy Butti, Brady Carter, Dale Clark, Craig Cook, Scott Cooley, Patricia Dailey, Jeff Daniels, Victor DeMacon, Tom Duyck, Doug Engle, Bonnie Fernandez, Robert Fesler, Debra French, Bob French, Shelle Freston, Diane Gannon, Margaret Gollnick, Mary Guttieri, Scott Haley, Tracy Harris, Hans Hayden, Jim Helmerick, Joy Hicks, Gary Hou, Sam Huang, Blaine Jacobson, Holly Johnson, Stephen Jones, Deborah Jones, Russ Karow, Thomas Koehler, Matt Kolding, JohnKuehner, Bon Lee, Harry Levine, Shawn Lindhorst, Lynn Little, Kaleen Long, Steve Lyon, Melissa McClendon, Jim McDonald, Reuben McLean, John Moffatt, Craig Morris, Jim Murry, Deanna Nash, John Oades, Katherine O'Brien, Lyle Perry, Jim Peterson, Pat Reisenauer, Debi Rogers, Jay Romsa, Andrew Ross, Gary Shelton, David Shelton, Tana Simpson, Edward Souza, Sena Wheeler, Alan Yirak, Eric Zakarison
Minutes for WCC-81 Meeting
Coeur d Alene, Idaho
February 3, 2004
Chairperson - Andrew Ross
Vice Chairperson - Deanna Nash
Secretary - Bob Zemetra
This meeting was held as a subcomponent of the much larger Pacific Northwest Wheat Quality Council and PNW-American Association of Cereal Chemists meetings held Feb. 2-5 at the Coeur d Alene Resort, Coeur d Alene, Idaho.
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Andrew Ross at 4 pm.
Brief, verbal state reports were given as noted below. Additional details from several states can be found in the documentation provided elsewhere in this report.
Russ Karow gave a brief administrative advisor update.
Scott Haley Colorado, CSU - Working on hard red winter quality standards with Plains group. There is a new Russian Wheat aphid biotype that is virulent against all resistance genes currently in the CO breeding program. Haley is working toward release of a Clearfield line to replace "Above."
Jim Peterson, Oregon, OSU - Clearfield release ORCF101 with others coming. Andrew Ross is actively working with the breeding program to develop and do early generation quality screening. Super soft white winters are being considered for release.
Ed Souza and Bob Zemetra, Idaho, UI - The Idaho Wheat Commission is funding wheat quality lab upgrades and space expansion. A number of releases for both specific production zones and quality factors are in process. Their group is doing basic research on whole grain analysis techniques for quality factors. Clearfield releases are anticipated in both programs.
Craig Morris, USDA-ARS, Washington - Federal funding for the Western Wheat Quality Lab was increased this past year. A new scientist will be hired to work on quality traits related to Asian products. Working on 2003 samples including GxE study, Overseas Variety Analysis program materials, Wheat Quality Council and state materials. Basic research is being done on polyphenol oxidases, pentosans, and other specific quality-related factors. The group has a set of isogenic lines with differing hardness alleles.
Brady Carter, Washington, WSU - A number of WSU lines are being released for quality and/or disease resistance characteristics. The group is trying to develop an AACC approved method for a 4-hour ashing procedure. They are also working on data for making comparisons among the various small-scale flour mills being used in the region.
Deanna Nash, Montana, MSU - several varieties are being released for saw fly or Russian wheat aphid resistance and/or quality or agronomic superiority.
Dale Clark, Montana, Western Plant Breeders - Several varieties being released for yield performance, disease and pest resistance, or specific quality considerations.
John Moffatt, AgroPro Wheat, Washington - AgroPro has their WA breeding station in full operation. Two people will be stationed at the site which includes processing buildings and a greenhouse. Quality testing will be done at their facility in Colorado. They will work on springs and winters, softs and hards at the WA site.
Matt Kolding, Hermiston, OR - is doing dwarf bunt testing at Flora, OR. He has a line in the western regional trial that appears to have both good snow mold and dwarf bunt resistance.
Gary Hou, Wheat Marketing Center Lab, Portland, OR - more than six teams will do testing on the Asian Collaborative materials in the coming year. The Lab is preparing a book on wheat flour testing targeted for a non-technical audience. A USDA overseas educational grant will underwrite part of the cost of development and publication. The books will be available at a reasonable price. Crop quality and other regional reports will be prepared as in past years.
Officers for the coming year will be Deanna Nash, president; Bob Zemetra, vice-president; Ed Souza, secretary-treasurer.
The meeting adjourned at 5:45 pm.
Coeur d Alene, Idaho
February 3, 2004
Chairperson - Andrew Ross
Vice Chairperson - Deanna Nash
Secretary - Bob Zemetra
This meeting was held as a subcomponent of the much larger Pacific Northwest Wheat Quality Council and PNW-American Association of Cereal Chemists meetings held Feb. 2-5 at the Coeur d Alene Resort, Coeur d Alene, Idaho.
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Andrew Ross at 4 pm.
Brief, verbal state reports were given as noted below. Additional details from several states can be found in the documentation provided elsewhere in this report.
Russ Karow gave a brief administrative advisor update.
Scott Haley Colorado, CSU - Working on hard red winter quality standards with Plains group. There is a new Russian Wheat aphid biotype that is virulent against all resistance genes currently in the CO breeding program. Haley is working toward release of a Clearfield line to replace "Above."
Jim Peterson, Oregon, OSU - Clearfield release ORCF101 with others coming. Andrew Ross is actively working with the breeding program to develop and do early generation quality screening. Super soft white winters are being considered for release.
Ed Souza and Bob Zemetra, Idaho, UI - The Idaho Wheat Commission is funding wheat quality lab upgrades and space expansion. A number of releases for both specific production zones and quality factors are in process. Their group is doing basic research on whole grain analysis techniques for quality factors. Clearfield releases are anticipated in both programs.
Craig Morris, USDA-ARS, Washington - Federal funding for the Western Wheat Quality Lab was increased this past year. A new scientist will be hired to work on quality traits related to Asian products. Working on 2003 samples including GxE study, Overseas Variety Analysis program materials, Wheat Quality Council and state materials. Basic research is being done on polyphenol oxidases, pentosans, and other specific quality-related factors. The group has a set of isogenic lines with differing hardness alleles.
Brady Carter, Washington, WSU - A number of WSU lines are being released for quality and/or disease resistance characteristics. The group is trying to develop an AACC approved method for a 4-hour ashing procedure. They are also working on data for making comparisons among the various small-scale flour mills being used in the region.
Deanna Nash, Montana, MSU - several varieties are being released for saw fly or Russian wheat aphid resistance and/or quality or agronomic superiority.
Dale Clark, Montana, Western Plant Breeders - Several varieties being released for yield performance, disease and pest resistance, or specific quality considerations.
John Moffatt, AgroPro Wheat, Washington - AgroPro has their WA breeding station in full operation. Two people will be stationed at the site which includes processing buildings and a greenhouse. Quality testing will be done at their facility in Colorado. They will work on springs and winters, softs and hards at the WA site.
Matt Kolding, Hermiston, OR - is doing dwarf bunt testing at Flora, OR. He has a line in the western regional trial that appears to have both good snow mold and dwarf bunt resistance.
Gary Hou, Wheat Marketing Center Lab, Portland, OR - more than six teams will do testing on the Asian Collaborative materials in the coming year. The Lab is preparing a book on wheat flour testing targeted for a non-technical audience. A USDA overseas educational grant will underwrite part of the cost of development and publication. The books will be available at a reasonable price. Crop quality and other regional reports will be prepared as in past years.
Officers for the coming year will be Deanna Nash, president; Bob Zemetra, vice-president; Ed Souza, secretary-treasurer.
The meeting adjourned at 5:45 pm.
Accomplishments
Utah State Univ. - David Hole
The Utah Agricultural Experiment Station released Deloris hard red winter wheat. Deloris was tested at the 2001 PNW wheat quality council in conjunction with WCC-81. The designation of Deloris when tested was UT203032.
Continued selection in early generations based on mixograph data from 2 gm samples of bulk populations. Approximately 20% of F2 bulk populations were discarded based on poor average mixograph.
Approximately 75 samples were sent to the Western Wheat Quality Lab for quality analysis. These samples reflected breeding lines and cultivar tests.
Washington State Univ. Wheat Quality Program - Brady Carter
Over 2000 breeder lines were evaluated for the 2002 crop year between the spring and winter breeding programs. Quality testing for spring samples was completed by the second week of February and testing for winter samples was completed by the second week of May.
Quality testing results for breeder nurseries were summarized in excel files with means and confidence intervals to aid in making selections. The quality data also was merged with yield data and combined across environments. Suggestions on selections based on end-use quality were provided with the data and in subsequent meetings. After consulting with the breeding teams, the method used to summarize nursery quality data was adjusted. The new system compares all experimental lines to the check variety and creates a score for each line based on the number of standard deviations away the breeding line value is from the check value for each test. Each quality test score is then weighted to create an overall score. The lines are then sorted by their overall score and those lines that are too far away from the mean are discarded. This overall score can then easily be compared with the scores of other breeding lines across locations and crop years if the same reference check is used.
For varieties that are being considered for variety release, a system to easily access historical data for the variety has been established using statistical analyses and the SAS program. Consequently, breeders are able to discern the performance of a variety being considered for release in comparison to most released varieties grown in the state instead of just checks included in their breeding nurseries. This information is used to determine if the variety is worthy of being released. At the 2003 variety release meeting, 1 WSU variety was approved for full release and 4 WSU varieties were approved for pre-release.
To improve end-use quality testing, a new test with great potential, noodle texture assessment has been inserted into the standard set of quality tests in late generations. The noodle texture method is an extension of the noodle color method that has been used at the Western Wheat Quality Lab for many years. The noodle texture protocols of several other labs were combined with the noodle color procedure used at our lab to try and speed up the process, but still obtain reliable results. Our method is much faster than the texture protocols used by the Wheat Marketing Center and Montana State University, but produces results very comparable to those obtained by the other labs, especially when rankings and significant differences are considered.
Several other research projects examining the varying results of different experimental flour mills, identifying ideal physiochemical combinations for hard white wheat, measuring quality trait inheritance using single seed descent populations, and mechanizing the SDS sedimentation test for use as a market applicable test of wheat functionality are currently in progress.
Washington State Univ. Spring Wheat Program - K. Kidwell
Over 250 crosses were made in 2003, and 29,625 breeding lines were evaluated in field trials at 1 to 16 locations in Washington state. Grain samples from 1932 early generation lines (F4 generation), and 356 advanced breeding lines with superior agronomic performance were sent to the USDA-ARS Western Wheat Quality Laboratory for end-use quality assessment.
Washington State University Winter Wheat Program - SS Jones
Over 3600 hard wheat breeding lines were evaluated in field trials in 2003. F3 and F4 lines are evaluated at Spillman Agronomy Farm near Pullman, WA. This area generally has favorable moisture conditions that: 1) enables plants to maximize their genetic variation in morphological traits and 2) enhances development of diseases so that selection for resistance can be made. The succeeding generations are tested at 2 to14 locations in Washington where hard wheats are typically produced.
Seventy-seven early-generation breeding lines (hard and soft) were seeded August 29, 2003 approximately six inches deep into variable soil moisture at the Dryland Research Station near Lind WA. A rain shower event (0.29 inch) occurred on Sept. 8 (10 days after seeding (DAS)), causing soil crusting. Seedling emergence was visually evaluated on Sept. 9 (11 DAS) and then again on Oct. 2 (34 DAS). In this nursery, most of the modern adapted lines were crossed to long coleoptile varieties of the same market class. Even though many had poor initial emergence, final emergence improved dramatically for many breeding lines.
The 2003 Hard and Soft Winter Wheat nurseries from the Variety Testing Program were deep planted (6 inches soil cover) in late May at the Lind Field Station. Observations indicate that most of the 80 cultivars and breeding lines emerge adequately when soil moisture is abundant and soil temperature is conducive for coleoptile elongation.
We developed seventy-three breeding lines using locally adapted hard white cultivars and Australian HWW cultivars that were screened for local adaptation and quality. They are in early generation field trials and those with acceptable quality and agronomic characteristics will be rapidly advanced. We are using Eltan as the recurrent parent in many of our backcrosses, as it is a well-adapted cultivar containing the high molecular weight glutenins consistent with high quality hard wheats. This breeding procedure will allow us to release a hard Eltan-type cultivar with broad adaptation much quicker.
This fall, all advanced hard red and hard white lines were evaluated for emergence capabilities under natural field crusting and deep planting on two seeding dates in Adams and Franklin counties. We were able to identify those lines with superior and inferior emergence capabilities. We will evaluate yield response with partial stands and correlate those with coleoptile length.
Fifty hard red breeding lines in a Finley background, quickly advanced through single-seed-descent, are in their second year of field trials. These lines have been intensively screened for acceptable quality, yield, emergence and all other relevant agronomic characteristics. The most superior lines will be advanced into the variety release process.
A study was initiated to observe the competitive interaction among cultivars in mixtures. Specifically, we will be looking at competition for light and to what degree canopy shading suppresses yield when using various concentrations of cultivars differing in plant height.
The WSU Winter Wheat Breeding Program wishes to gratefully acknowledge and thank Mrs. Patsy Sunderman for her generous donation of the entire germplasm of Sunderman Breeding Inc. in 2003. This breeding program will be greatly enhanced by the work of the late Dr. Donald Sunderman with the introgression of Sunderman Breeding Inc. (SBI) germplasm into our breeding lines and cultivars. One hundred twenty-seven SBI breeding lines were planted this fall and will be evaluated for quality and local adaptation.
Colorado State University - Scott Haley
No new cultivars were released in fall 2003. Ankor, which was released in 2002, performed extremely well in 2003 and outperformed its recurrent parent Akron by 2-3 bushels across the High Plains region. Above, a Clearfield wheat released in 2001, again performed near the top of the Colorado Dryland Variety Trials (UVPT) and Collaborative On-Farm Tests (COFT). Acreage of Above in Colorado may approach 190,000 acres in 2004.
Two new experimental lines were put on Foundation Seed increase with the intent to release in fall 2004. The first of these, CO980607 (Yuma/T-57//TAM 200/3/4*Yuma/4/NEWS08), was the top performing entry in the Colorado UVPT and the western High Plains locations of the Southern Regional Performance Nursery (SRPN) in 2003. It carries resistance (Dn4 gene) to the original North American biotype of Russian wheat aphid (RWA), though identification in spring 2003 of a new biotype virulent to Dn4 may negate this advantage. Averaged across three years of testing (21 locations) in the UVPT, CO980607 was also the top performing entry, superior to Trego and all other available RWA resistant cultivars. CO980607 does not have the straw strength of its Yumar parent and will thus not be recommended for irrigated production. While its protein content is somewhat low (similar to Yuma and Alliance), experimental milling and baking quality evaluations of CO980607 have been excellent, similar to Prowers 99. CO980607 received overall favorable evaluations in the 2002 Wheat Quality Council Testing program and was entered for a second year of WQC evaluations in 2003.
The second line intended for release is CO00D007 (Yumar//TXGH12588-120*4/FS2). CO00D007 is a Clearfield experimental line derived through a wheat-maize doubled haploid program using Yumar as a source of RWA resistance and a BC3F2 plant obtained from American Cyanamid as the source of imazamox tolerance. In the 2003 UVPT, CO00D007 was the second highest performing entry (second only to CO980607) with yield about 2.5 bushels/acre higher than Above and 6.3 bushels/acre higher than AP502 CL. Experimental milling and baking quality evaluations of CO00D007 have also been excellent, in spite of its somewhat lower protein content (similar to Yuma and Alliance) and test weight (similar to Enhancer and Halt). CO00D007 has been entered in the 2003 Wheat Quality Council Testing program.
University of Idaho - Ed Souza
In the past year, the Aberdeen wheat breeding program worked to develop new cultivars to improve the marketing and profitability of western US farmers.
We managed approximately 40 acres of field trials and reported the results to farmers and peer scientist. The wheat quality laboratory at Aberdeen processed over 10,000 wheat samples to provide quality evaluations to breeding programs and agronomists in Idaho and the western US.
The Aberdeen program released Idaho 587, a imidazlinone resistant wheat, in a joint project negotiated with BASF and five seed associates, through the Idaho Agric. Experiment Station, UI Foundation Seed Committee, and the Idaho Research Foundation. The milling and baking quality of Idaho 587 will be evaluated in 2004 by the WRC-81 committee and the PNW Wheat Quality Council. We continued to work with the seed industry to expand utilization of several of our recent releases that were approved through the WRC-81/PNW Wheat Quality Council program: Moreland, DW, Alturas, and Jubilee.
As part of the IFAFS, Bringing Genomics to the Wheat Fields Grant, we completed the first sets of a series of backcrosses to transfer improved milling quality into Idaho wheat cultivars. Our program cooperates with other wheat research programs in Idaho and the western US. Two significant areas of cooperative application concern addressing soft wheat quality targets and current price discounts for PNW red wheats based on perceptions of low quality.
The Utah Agricultural Experiment Station released Deloris hard red winter wheat. Deloris was tested at the 2001 PNW wheat quality council in conjunction with WCC-81. The designation of Deloris when tested was UT203032.
Continued selection in early generations based on mixograph data from 2 gm samples of bulk populations. Approximately 20% of F2 bulk populations were discarded based on poor average mixograph.
Approximately 75 samples were sent to the Western Wheat Quality Lab for quality analysis. These samples reflected breeding lines and cultivar tests.
Washington State Univ. Wheat Quality Program - Brady Carter
Over 2000 breeder lines were evaluated for the 2002 crop year between the spring and winter breeding programs. Quality testing for spring samples was completed by the second week of February and testing for winter samples was completed by the second week of May.
Quality testing results for breeder nurseries were summarized in excel files with means and confidence intervals to aid in making selections. The quality data also was merged with yield data and combined across environments. Suggestions on selections based on end-use quality were provided with the data and in subsequent meetings. After consulting with the breeding teams, the method used to summarize nursery quality data was adjusted. The new system compares all experimental lines to the check variety and creates a score for each line based on the number of standard deviations away the breeding line value is from the check value for each test. Each quality test score is then weighted to create an overall score. The lines are then sorted by their overall score and those lines that are too far away from the mean are discarded. This overall score can then easily be compared with the scores of other breeding lines across locations and crop years if the same reference check is used.
For varieties that are being considered for variety release, a system to easily access historical data for the variety has been established using statistical analyses and the SAS program. Consequently, breeders are able to discern the performance of a variety being considered for release in comparison to most released varieties grown in the state instead of just checks included in their breeding nurseries. This information is used to determine if the variety is worthy of being released. At the 2003 variety release meeting, 1 WSU variety was approved for full release and 4 WSU varieties were approved for pre-release.
To improve end-use quality testing, a new test with great potential, noodle texture assessment has been inserted into the standard set of quality tests in late generations. The noodle texture method is an extension of the noodle color method that has been used at the Western Wheat Quality Lab for many years. The noodle texture protocols of several other labs were combined with the noodle color procedure used at our lab to try and speed up the process, but still obtain reliable results. Our method is much faster than the texture protocols used by the Wheat Marketing Center and Montana State University, but produces results very comparable to those obtained by the other labs, especially when rankings and significant differences are considered.
Several other research projects examining the varying results of different experimental flour mills, identifying ideal physiochemical combinations for hard white wheat, measuring quality trait inheritance using single seed descent populations, and mechanizing the SDS sedimentation test for use as a market applicable test of wheat functionality are currently in progress.
Washington State Univ. Spring Wheat Program - K. Kidwell
Over 250 crosses were made in 2003, and 29,625 breeding lines were evaluated in field trials at 1 to 16 locations in Washington state. Grain samples from 1932 early generation lines (F4 generation), and 356 advanced breeding lines with superior agronomic performance were sent to the USDA-ARS Western Wheat Quality Laboratory for end-use quality assessment.
Washington State University Winter Wheat Program - SS Jones
Over 3600 hard wheat breeding lines were evaluated in field trials in 2003. F3 and F4 lines are evaluated at Spillman Agronomy Farm near Pullman, WA. This area generally has favorable moisture conditions that: 1) enables plants to maximize their genetic variation in morphological traits and 2) enhances development of diseases so that selection for resistance can be made. The succeeding generations are tested at 2 to14 locations in Washington where hard wheats are typically produced.
Seventy-seven early-generation breeding lines (hard and soft) were seeded August 29, 2003 approximately six inches deep into variable soil moisture at the Dryland Research Station near Lind WA. A rain shower event (0.29 inch) occurred on Sept. 8 (10 days after seeding (DAS)), causing soil crusting. Seedling emergence was visually evaluated on Sept. 9 (11 DAS) and then again on Oct. 2 (34 DAS). In this nursery, most of the modern adapted lines were crossed to long coleoptile varieties of the same market class. Even though many had poor initial emergence, final emergence improved dramatically for many breeding lines.
The 2003 Hard and Soft Winter Wheat nurseries from the Variety Testing Program were deep planted (6 inches soil cover) in late May at the Lind Field Station. Observations indicate that most of the 80 cultivars and breeding lines emerge adequately when soil moisture is abundant and soil temperature is conducive for coleoptile elongation.
We developed seventy-three breeding lines using locally adapted hard white cultivars and Australian HWW cultivars that were screened for local adaptation and quality. They are in early generation field trials and those with acceptable quality and agronomic characteristics will be rapidly advanced. We are using Eltan as the recurrent parent in many of our backcrosses, as it is a well-adapted cultivar containing the high molecular weight glutenins consistent with high quality hard wheats. This breeding procedure will allow us to release a hard Eltan-type cultivar with broad adaptation much quicker.
This fall, all advanced hard red and hard white lines were evaluated for emergence capabilities under natural field crusting and deep planting on two seeding dates in Adams and Franklin counties. We were able to identify those lines with superior and inferior emergence capabilities. We will evaluate yield response with partial stands and correlate those with coleoptile length.
Fifty hard red breeding lines in a Finley background, quickly advanced through single-seed-descent, are in their second year of field trials. These lines have been intensively screened for acceptable quality, yield, emergence and all other relevant agronomic characteristics. The most superior lines will be advanced into the variety release process.
A study was initiated to observe the competitive interaction among cultivars in mixtures. Specifically, we will be looking at competition for light and to what degree canopy shading suppresses yield when using various concentrations of cultivars differing in plant height.
The WSU Winter Wheat Breeding Program wishes to gratefully acknowledge and thank Mrs. Patsy Sunderman for her generous donation of the entire germplasm of Sunderman Breeding Inc. in 2003. This breeding program will be greatly enhanced by the work of the late Dr. Donald Sunderman with the introgression of Sunderman Breeding Inc. (SBI) germplasm into our breeding lines and cultivars. One hundred twenty-seven SBI breeding lines were planted this fall and will be evaluated for quality and local adaptation.
Colorado State University - Scott Haley
No new cultivars were released in fall 2003. Ankor, which was released in 2002, performed extremely well in 2003 and outperformed its recurrent parent Akron by 2-3 bushels across the High Plains region. Above, a Clearfield wheat released in 2001, again performed near the top of the Colorado Dryland Variety Trials (UVPT) and Collaborative On-Farm Tests (COFT). Acreage of Above in Colorado may approach 190,000 acres in 2004.
Two new experimental lines were put on Foundation Seed increase with the intent to release in fall 2004. The first of these, CO980607 (Yuma/T-57//TAM 200/3/4*Yuma/4/NEWS08), was the top performing entry in the Colorado UVPT and the western High Plains locations of the Southern Regional Performance Nursery (SRPN) in 2003. It carries resistance (Dn4 gene) to the original North American biotype of Russian wheat aphid (RWA), though identification in spring 2003 of a new biotype virulent to Dn4 may negate this advantage. Averaged across three years of testing (21 locations) in the UVPT, CO980607 was also the top performing entry, superior to Trego and all other available RWA resistant cultivars. CO980607 does not have the straw strength of its Yumar parent and will thus not be recommended for irrigated production. While its protein content is somewhat low (similar to Yuma and Alliance), experimental milling and baking quality evaluations of CO980607 have been excellent, similar to Prowers 99. CO980607 received overall favorable evaluations in the 2002 Wheat Quality Council Testing program and was entered for a second year of WQC evaluations in 2003.
The second line intended for release is CO00D007 (Yumar//TXGH12588-120*4/FS2). CO00D007 is a Clearfield experimental line derived through a wheat-maize doubled haploid program using Yumar as a source of RWA resistance and a BC3F2 plant obtained from American Cyanamid as the source of imazamox tolerance. In the 2003 UVPT, CO00D007 was the second highest performing entry (second only to CO980607) with yield about 2.5 bushels/acre higher than Above and 6.3 bushels/acre higher than AP502 CL. Experimental milling and baking quality evaluations of CO00D007 have also been excellent, in spite of its somewhat lower protein content (similar to Yuma and Alliance) and test weight (similar to Enhancer and Halt). CO00D007 has been entered in the 2003 Wheat Quality Council Testing program.
University of Idaho - Ed Souza
In the past year, the Aberdeen wheat breeding program worked to develop new cultivars to improve the marketing and profitability of western US farmers.
We managed approximately 40 acres of field trials and reported the results to farmers and peer scientist. The wheat quality laboratory at Aberdeen processed over 10,000 wheat samples to provide quality evaluations to breeding programs and agronomists in Idaho and the western US.
The Aberdeen program released Idaho 587, a imidazlinone resistant wheat, in a joint project negotiated with BASF and five seed associates, through the Idaho Agric. Experiment Station, UI Foundation Seed Committee, and the Idaho Research Foundation. The milling and baking quality of Idaho 587 will be evaluated in 2004 by the WRC-81 committee and the PNW Wheat Quality Council. We continued to work with the seed industry to expand utilization of several of our recent releases that were approved through the WRC-81/PNW Wheat Quality Council program: Moreland, DW, Alturas, and Jubilee.
As part of the IFAFS, Bringing Genomics to the Wheat Fields Grant, we completed the first sets of a series of backcrosses to transfer improved milling quality into Idaho wheat cultivars. Our program cooperates with other wheat research programs in Idaho and the western US. Two significant areas of cooperative application concern addressing soft wheat quality targets and current price discounts for PNW red wheats based on perceptions of low quality.
Impacts
- Registered seed of Tara 2002, a 2000 variety release, is available for 2004. Tara 2002 is expected to replace a significant proportion of the WPB 926 acreage in the intermediate to high rainfall zones.
- Registered and certified seed of Macon, a 2002 variety release, is available for 2004. Macon is the first hard white wheat variety to be released by WSU, and is one of the first true dual purpose hard white wheat varieties with exceptional bread baking and noodle making quality to be released in the US.
- Registered seed of Eden, a 2002 spring club release, is available for 2004. Eden is expected to replace 100% of the Calorwa acreage in the region.
- Foundation seed of Hollis, a 2003 variety release, is available for 2004. Hollis is expected to replace a portion of Scarlet acreage in the low to intermediate rainfall zones.
- Breeder seed of WA7921, a new soft white wheat, was produced in 2003 and if released, Foundation seed of this line will be available in 2005.
- WA007936 is a hard white winter variety developed through the backcross-breeding program. It has superior dual purpose hard white quality and was approved for Breeder Seed increase in the fall of 2003.
- WA007939 is a hard red winter variety with good bread and noodle quality. Statewide Variety Testing summarized results indicate it consistently outperforms Finley and has phenotypic and agronomic characteristics very similar to Eltan. It was approved for Breeder Seed increase in the fall of 2003
- The Utah Agricultural Experiment Station released Deloris hard red winter wheat. The designation of Deloris when tested was UT203032.
- The Aberdeen program released Idaho 587, a imidazlinone resistant wheat, in a joint project negotiated with BASF and five seed associates, through the Idaho Agric. Experiment Station, UI Foundation Seed Committee, and the Idaho Research Foundation.
- The Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station released ORCF-101, a soft white winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) that possesses Clearfield herbicide resistance technology
- OR2010007 is an OSU Clearfield selection with the pedigree Madsen/CV-9804//Weatherford. A 7-acre Foundation seed field of OR2010007 was planted in fall 2003. Release is anticipated in 2004.
Publications
Bertolini, A.C., E.J. Souza, J.E. Nelson, and K.C. Huber. 2003. Composition and reactivity of A- and B-type starch granules of normal, partial waxy, and waxy wheat. Cereal Chem. 80: 544-549.
Burns J. and K. Kidwell. Spring wheat performance in 2003, p 26-28. In Wheat Life, Washington Association of Wheat Growers? Official Publication. December 2003. Vol. 46 No. 11.
Burns, J.W., S.S. Jones, K.G. Campbell, K.K. Kidwell, S.E. Ullrich, D.H. vonWettstein, and D. Boze. 2003. 2003 Cereal Variety Evaluation Results. Cooperative Extension, Washington State University, Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences, Technical Report 03-3.
Carter, B.P. 2003. The impact of reduced tillage strategies on the end-use quality of wheat. Pages 1-3 In Agricultural Horizons November 2003 issue. Washington State University Cooperative Extension, Washington State University
Carter, B.P. and Harris, T. 2003. Washington State University Wheat Quality Program. Pages 16-17. In 2003 Field Day Proceedings, Technical Report 03-2 Washington State University Cooperative Extension, Washington State University.
Carter, B.P., Harris, T., Roberts, D., and Roe, R.D. 2003. The impact of reduced tillage strategies on the end-use quality of wheat. P.114 In 2003 AACC Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon.
Cook, R.J., J. Burns, K. Campbell, S. Jones and K. Kidwell. 2003. Performance of advanced lines and varieties of spring and winter wheats seeded directly into cereal stubble. p. 25. In Burns, J. and Veseth, R. (eds), 2003 Field Day Proceedings: Highlights of Research Progress. Extension, Washington State University, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Technical Report 03-2.
Jones, S.S., 2003. Ecological indicators of sustainable agriculture. Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science. F. Kirschenmann and R.Goodman eds.
Jones, S., S. Lyon, K. Balow, M. Gollnick, D. Lammer, M. Arterburn, J. Chatelain, A. Greco, K. Murphy. 2003.Winter wheat breeding, genetics, and cytology. 2002 progress report. p.14. In Burns, J. and Veseth, R. (eds), 2003 Field Day Proceedings: Highlights of Research Progress. Extension, Washington State University, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Technical Report 03-2.
Graybosch, R.A., E. Souza, W. Berzonsky. 2003. Registration of 19 waxy spring wheat germplasm. Crop Sci. 43: (In press).
Graybosch, R.A., E. Souza, W. Berzonsky, P.S. Baenzinger, O. Chung. 2003. Functional properties of the waxy wheat flours: genotypic and environmental effects. J. Cereal Chem. 38: 69-76.
Kidwell, K.K., V.L. DeMacon, G.B. Shelton, J.W. Burns, B.P. Carter, C.F. Morris, X. Chen and N.A. Bosque-Perez. 2003. Registration of ?Macon? Wheat. Crop Sci (accepted).
Kidwell, K.K., V.L. DeMacon, G.B. Shelton, J.W. Burns, B.P. Carter, C.F. Morris, X. Chen and N.A. Bosque-Perez. 2003. Registration of Macon Wheat. Crop Sci 43:1561-1563.
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Graybosch, R.A., E. Souza, W. Berzonsky. 2003. Registration of 19 waxy spring wheat germplasm. Crop Sci. 43: (In press).
Graybosch, R.A., E. Souza, W. Berzonsky, P.S. Baenzinger, O. Chung. 2003. Functional properties of the waxy wheat flours: genotypic and environmental effects. J. Cereal Chem. 38: 69-76.
Kidwell, K.K., V.L. DeMacon, G.B. Shelton, J.W. Burns, B.P. Carter, C.F. Morris, X. Chen and N.A. Bosque-Perez. 2003. Registration of ?Macon? Wheat. Crop Sci (accepted).
Kidwell, K.K., V.L. DeMacon, G.B. Shelton, J.W. Burns, B.P. Carter, C.F. Morris, X. Chen and N.A. Bosque-Perez. 2003. Registration of Macon Wheat. Crop Sci 43:1561-1563.
Smiley, R., J. Gourlie, R. Whittaker, S. Easley, and K. Kidwell. 2003. Economic impact of Hessian fly on spring wheat in eastern Oregon, 2001 & 2002. p. 19-26. In Research Reports: 62nd Annual Pacific Northwest Insect Management Conference. Portland, OR.
Smiley, R., R. Whittaker, J. Gourlie, S. Easley, K. Rhinhart, E. Jacobsen, J. Peterson, K. Kidwell, and K. Campbell. 2003. Genetic tolerance to Fusarium crown rot of wheat. Oregon Agr. Expt. Stn. Spec. Rpt. 1047:40-52.
Smiley, R.W., and K. Kidwell. 2003. Economic impact of Hessian fly on spring wheat in eastern Oregon. Proc. 87th Ann. Meeting, Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America. Tucson, AZ.