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Tex. Wheat Improvement * (l) Develop new varieties of vrtieat 



superior to present varieties and adapted to production of 

 grain and/or forage, in state or introduce variety. (2) 

 Study development of varieties resistant to diseases prevalent 

 in each area as leaf and stem rust, smuts, mildew, septoria, 

 and root rots. Breeding and control studies of rusts will be 

 coordinated with Project 983 and will include wheat grown for 

 forage and grain. (3) Cooperate with Arlington College and 

 regional quality lab. of USDA to learn quality characteristics 

 of new varieties and strains. Select best quality strains and 

 learn means of measuring quality characteristics and evaluating 

 strains. (4) Study forage characteristics of varieties and 

 strains and develop varieties suited for winter pasture, hay, 

 or other feed. "Spelt" (non-threshing type) for feed and 

 forage in South Texas will be studied. (5) Learn cold 

 resistemce of strains for release. (6) (?) Cooperate with 

 entomologist in search for resistant germ plasm to greenbug 

 attacks, etc. and with states and USDA in regional trials of 

 yield, disease and insect resistance, winter hardiness and 

 development of multiple factor genetic stocks. Grow two 

 generations a year to increase hybrids and promising strains. 

 Agron., PI. Physiol., PI. Path. 1033, Coop. ARS 



Wash. The Transfer of Economic Characters from Related Genera 



and Species to Common Wheats . To transfer immune or high type 

 of resistance to available races of leaf and stem rust, bunt, 

 mildew, and other agronomic characters, such as solid stems, 

 and shorter, stiff er straw from available Triticum and 

 Agropyron species to stable hexaploid wheat derivatives of 

 value as parents in future wheat varieties. 

 Agron. 966, Coop. USDA 



Wash. Breeding Wheats Resistant to Stem Rust (Including Race 15B) 



and Leaf Rust for Washington . To incorporate and test resistance 

 to stem rust, (including race 15B) and leaf rust in new selec- 

 tions for wheat for Washington. 

 Agron. 1081, Coop. ARS 



