Pre-harvest sprouting in wheat costs farmers millions of dollars every year. Pre-harvest sprouting tolerance (PST) has minimized this problem, but improvement of PST is still necessary. Synthetic hexaploid wheats (synthetics) have been used as sources of
genes coding for many useful traits. Two studies evaluated the PST of a synthetic...
Previous work indicated a substantial heterotic expression for grain yield existed within winter/spring hybrids of barley, This research was a continuation for the comparison of the expression of heterosis within winter/spring hybrids to the heterotic effect produced among the winter and among the spring parents. The F₁ and F₂ progenies...
Three genetically different dwarf cultivars of spring wheat were
evaluated as potential sources of short stature to use in a wheat improvement
program. The study involved a five parent diallel cross
which included a semidwarf, a standard height and three dwarf cultivars.
The genetic sources of dwarfism included a Norma...
Wheat (Tritium aestivum) is an extremely important crop worldwide. It accounts for almost one quarter of the calories consumed each day by more than one third of the world’s population, and is grown over more land area than any other crop. Wheat breeding programs constantly strive to increase or maintain...
Concerns about the possible reciprocal differences resulting from
systematic crossings of winter and spring wheat gene pools prompted
this investigation. If traits can be improved by simply reversing the
direction of a cross, then identification of the best female parent in
a cross would be helpful for breeding programs.
Two...
Two experiments involving interactions between wheat
(Triticum aesitivium L.) cultivars and rust pathogens were
investigated. One experiment evaluated the aggressiveness
(measured by infection efficiency and latent period) of
populations of Puccinia recondita Rob. when inoculated on
the cultivar they were isolated from, their "own" cultivar,
and when inoculated onto other...
Effective chemical control of pollination would
provide an alternative to the cytoplasmic male-sterile
system in hybrid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production.
The objective of this study was to determine
concentration, formulation, growth stage of application
and genotypic effects on levels of induced pollen
suppression and subsequent natural out-crossing from
foliar...
This study quantified the frequency of simple versus
complex races of Puccinia striiformis Westend. in mixtures
of wheat cultivars possessing different race-specific
resistance genes. A simple race of a pathogen can infect
only one component, and a complex race of the pathogen can
infect two or more components of an...
Factors which influence the effectiveness of making early generation
selections within bulk populations were investigated. Material
utilized included the parents, F₁, and F₂ through F₅ bulk populations
resulting from a diallel cross. Information concerning the response
of two traits, plant height and grain yield, was obtained for these populations
at...