| Project: COL00795 |
Department: Soil & Crop Sciences |
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PIs: Haley, SD
; Johnson, JJ
; Peairs, FB |
| Title: Improvement of Quality and Performance of Colorado Wheat |
| Begin Date: 07/01/2005 |
Term Date: 06/30/2010
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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, 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, bread-making, Asian noodles), 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 and noodle quality. |
| Keywords: wheat breeding, milling quality, baking quality, noodle quality, insect resistance, disease resistance, high temperature tolerance, drought stress tolerance, Russian wheat aphid resistance |
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