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Research Project: Mobilizing Genetic Resources and Technologies for Breeding Profitable, Resilient, and Nutritious Hard Winter Wheat

Location: Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research

Title: Registration of ‘KS Big Bow’ hard white winter wheat

Author
item ZHANG, GUORONG - Kansas State University
item FRITZ, ALLAN - Kansas State University
item LI, YONGHUI - Kansas State University
item Bowden, Robert
item Bai, Guihua
item Chen, Ming-Shun
item RUPP, JESSICA - Kansas State University
item Jin, Yue

Submitted to: Journal of Plant Registrations
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/25/2023
Publication Date: 1/20/2024
Citation: Zhang, G., Fritz, A., Li, Y., Bowden, R.L., Bai, G., Chen, M., Rupp, J., Jin, Y. 2024. Registration of ‘KS Big Bow’ hard white winter wheat. Journal of Plant Registrations. 18:388–392. https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20354.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20354

Interpretive Summary: Wheat producers constantly need new high yielding, pest-resistant wheat varieties with acceptable milling and baking qualities. 'KS Big Bow' is a new hard white winter wheat cultivar released by the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station. It has very good adaptation to the dryland production area of western Kansas. It has very good yield and grain test weight characteristics. It has good straw strength and a good resistance package for wheat streak mosaic virus, stripe rust, stem rust, and barley yellow dwarf virus. Its milling and baking qualities are about average.

Technical Abstract: ‘KS Big Bow’, a hard white winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar, was developed by the wheat breeding program at the Agricultural Research Center-Hays, Kansas State University and released by the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station in 2022. KS Big Bow was selected from a single cross of KS050223M-2/KS11HW15 using a modified bulk breeding method. The main objective of this cross is to release a competitive hard white winter wheat cultivar with adaptation to the dryland production in western Kansas. KS Big Bow is an F5-derived line and has been tested in yield trials from 2017 to 2022 in Kansas before its release. It has performed well in dryland yield trials in western Kansas. KS Big Bow has a medium to medium-early maturity and medium plant height. Its test weight and straw strength are good. KS Big Bow has a good disease-resistant package including resistance to Wheat streak mosaic virus, moderate resistances to stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis Westend. f. sp. tritici Erikss.) and stem rust (P. graminis Pers f. sp. tritici Eriks. & E. Henn.), and intermediate resistance to Barley yellow dwarf virus. Its milling and baking qualities are about average.