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Title: REGISTRATION OF 'VERDE' WHEAT

Author
item Busch, Robert - Bob
item MCVEY, DONALD
item LINKERT, GARY - UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
item WIERSMA, JOHN - UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
item WARNES, DENNIS - UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
item WILCOXSON, ROY - UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
item HARELAND, GARY
item EDWARDS, IAN - PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATL
item SCHMIDT, HERB - PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATL

Submitted to: Crop Science
Publication Type: Germplasm Release
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/15/1996
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary: This is a Germplasm Release, no Interpretive Summary Required.

Technical Abstract: Verde hard red spring wheat variety was developed jointly by USDA ARS, University of Minnesota, and Pioneer Hi-Bred International. The Pioneer spring wheat program was closed in 1989 and their germplasm was jointly distributed to wheat breeding programs in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota. The line, later released as Verde, was identified after yield testing from 1992 through 1995 in the USDA ARS, University of Minnesota program. Verde yielded 14% more than Grandin and similarly to Pioneer 2375 over 18 Minnesota environments. Under severe scab condition in Minnesota in 1993 and 1994, Verde was 9% lower yielding than Pioneer 2375 but 11% higher than Grandin. Verde appears best adapted to the Red River Valley of the North. It is similar to Grandin in plant height and lodging resistance. Because of its excellent green leaf retention, it was named Verde, meaning green in Spanish. Verde was judged as acceptable in milling gand baking quality by both the USDA Spring Wheat Quality Laboratory and th milling and baking industry (Spring Wheat Quality Council). It is about 1 percentage point lower than Pioneer 2375 in protein. Verde is resistant to currently prevalent races of stem and leaf rust. It is moderately susceptible to loose smut and expresses limited spread of blight in the spike when inoculated with scab.