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OSU Wheat Scientist Brett Carver Says OSU Wheat Tests Plots Yielding Excellent Data
Fri, 15 May 2020 14:09:46 CDT
Oklahoma State University Extension's wheat test plots around the state are bursting with data this spring, said Dr. Brett Carver, OSU Regents Professor, Wheat Genetics Chair in Agriculture, Wheat Breeding and Genetics, talked with Radio Oklahoma Agriculture Associate Farm Director and Editor KC Sheperd during the recent OSU field day in Lahoma.
Some of the data coming out of the test plots is good, some not so much.
Freeze and disease damage is showing up in the southern plots, Carver said.
We have a lot of things in the field we are eager to finish, he said.
The results so far range from very poor to very good.
Varieties such as OK Corral look very good, Carver said, but even it did not escape freeze damage at the Stillwater plots.
"It went through the flowering period at the worse time possible," Carver said.
The variety Carver refers to as the 89er looks great and the 168512 as far as wheat streak mosaic looks good as does the Clearfield, Carver said.
Oklahoma's tough climate make growing anything a challenge and Carver says it is always a balancing act between quality and quantity.
Carver singled out the beardless variety OK Corral as having great quality. It exhibits resistance to several diseases, including stripe rust, leaf rust, tan spot, wheat streak mosaic, powdery mildew and Septorium leaf blotch, although it is somewhat susceptible to barley yellow dwarf.
All this information highlights the need for a public wheat breeding program.
I think public wheat breeding is looking very good, Carver said.
He pointed out the combination of classroom instruction and researchers in the laboratory capitalizing on the investment.
"Why not take that one step further and develop a commercial product," Carver said.
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