| Project: COL00795 |
Department: Soil & Crop Sciences |
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PIs: Haley, SD
; Johnson, JJ |
| Title: Improvement of Quality and Performance of Colorado Wheat |
| Begin Date: 07/01/2011 |
Term Date: 06/30/2016
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Most recent project status:
Revised
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| Objectives: 1) To make available, through breeding and testing, winter wheat cultivars and germplasm having desirable end-use quality characteristics; 2) To make available, through breeding and testing, winter wheat cultivars and germplasm having desirable agronomic characteristics, including high grain yield and yield stability, environmental stress tolerance, agronomic adaptation, and pest (disease and insect) resistance; 3) To conduct basic and collaborative research studies focused on mitigating constraints for effective production and marketing of wheat produced in Colorado. |
| Approach: Obtain a wide diversity of germplasm from domestic and international sources. Determine adaptability to Colorado conditions and use in hybridization to develop improved winter wheat cultivars and germplasm with the following characteristics: high yield and yield stability, good end-use quality (milling and bread-making), disease and insect resistance, environmental stress tolerance, and optimum agronomic adaptation for both dryland and irrigated production conditions. Conduct basic research relative to the genetic control of traits important to minimize production constraints and optimize end-use quality. Develop and evaluate methods of disease and insect resistance evaluation and bread-making quality. |
| Keywords: wheat
winter wheat
breeding
disease resistance
insect resistance
milling and baking quality
drought stress tolerance
yield improvement
marker assisted selection |
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