**UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE**

**AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE**

**in cooperation with**

**STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS**

**Report on Hard Red Spring Wheat Varieties Grown in Cooperative Plot
and**

**Nursery Experiments in the Spring Wheat Region in 2006**

Hard Spring Wheat Nursery Coordinator:

D.F. Garvin, Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS

Report prepared by D.F. Garvin and Z. Blankenheim

This is a joint progress report of cooperative investigations underway
in the State Agricultural Experiment Stations and the Agricultural
Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It contains
preliminary data which have not been sufficiently confirmed to justify
general release, and interpretations may be modified after additional
experimentation. Confirmed results will be published through established
channels. This report is primarily a tool for use by cooperators and
their official staffs, and for those persons having direct and special
interest in the development of agricultural research programs.

This report includes data furnished by the State Agricultural Experiment
Stations as well as by the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture. This report is not intended for publication
and should not be referred to in literature citations, nor quoted in
publicity or advertising.

Use of the data may be granted for certain purposes upon written request
to the agency or agencies involved.

Agricultural Research Service

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Midwest Area

St. Paul, Minnesota

December, 2006

**2006 HARD RED SPRING WHEAT UNIFORM REGIONAL NURSERY REPORT**

**CONTENTS PAGE**

Cooperating Agencies, Stations and Personnel 2

Provisional Policy for Protected or Patented Genes 4

Spring Wheat Production Statistics 5

Description and Summary of 2006 HRSWURN 6

Figure 1. Geographic Locations of 2006 HRSWURN 7

Table 1. List of Entries in the 2006 HRSWURN 8

Table 2. Nursery Locations and Comparative Plot Management Data 9

Tables 3-22. Nursery Data by Individual Location 10-29

Table 23. Summary of Trait Means Across Locations 30

Table 24. Yield Rankings by Location 31

Table 25. Summary of 2-Year Means Combined Over 2005-2006 32

Table 26. Seedling Leaf Rust Reactions, St. Paul, MN 33

Table 27. Stripe Rust Reactions, Pullman, WA 34

Table 28. *Fusarium* Head Blight Reactions, Crookston, MN 35

**COOPERATING AGENCIES, STATIONS, AND PERSONNEL FOR THE 2006 HRSWURN**

USDA-AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE

National Program Leader M.W. Simmons

Midwest Area Director S. R. Shafer

Nursery Coordinator

Plant Science Research Unit, St. Paul, MN D.F. Garvin

Quality Investigations

Cereal Crops Research Unit, Fargo, ND G. Hareland

Disease Evaluations

Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, MN J. Kolmer

Yue Jin

Wheat Genetics, Physiology, Quality, and Disease Xianming Chen

Research Unit, Pullman, WA

MINNESOTA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

St. Paul, University of Minnesota

Agronomy and Plant Genetics J. Anderson

G. Linkert

Plant Pathology R. Dill-Macky

Morris, West Central Experiment Station G. Nelson

Crookston, Northwestern Experiment Station J. Wiersma

AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD CANADA

Winnipeg, Cereal Research Centre (Glenlea)

> Breeding and Genetics G. Humphreys
>
> Cereal Diseases T. Fetch
>
> B. McCallum

Swift Current, Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre R. DePauw

D. Dahlman

NORTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

Fargo, North Dakota State University

Agronomy W. Berzonsky

M. Mergoum

Plant Pathology Robert Stack

Hettinger Research Extension Center E. Eriksmoen

Langdon Research Extension Center B. Hanson

Williston Research Extension Center N. Riveland

Carrington Research Extension Center B. Schatz

SOUTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

Brookings, South Dakota State University K. Glover

MONTANA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

Bozeman, Montana State University L. Talbert

S. Lanning

Sidney, Eastern Ag Research Center J. Eckhoff

D. Kunda

B. Garza

NEBRASKA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

Scottsbluff, University of Nebraska (Sidney NE location) D.
Baltensperger

G. Frickel

WYOMING AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

Powell, University of Wyoming M. Killen

WASHINGTON AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

Pullman, Washington State University K. Kidwell

G. Shelton

**Entering Lines with Protected or Patented Genes into the Hard Red
Spring Wheat Uniform Regional Nursery**

The following information details the Hard Winter Wheat Regional Program
position on this issue. Basically, the same situation exists in the
Spring Wheat Region, and it is therefore suggested that these guidelines
are appropriate and thus accepted for the Hard Red Spring Wheat Uniform
Regional Nursery as well, until such a time as the participants agree to
deviate from it:

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**From: Robert Graybosch, Coordinator of Hard Winter Wheat Region**

A question has arisen as to whether wheat germplasm lines carrying
protected or patented genes may be entered in the HWW regional program.
We have decided to allow such submissions, on a provisional basis, for
the 2001 nurseries. Submissions must adhere to the provisions below, and
submissions of such lines after the 2001 year will depend upon the
adoption of formal guidelines. We are in the process of drafting a
formal plan, hopefully one that will be approved at the 2001 Hard Winter
Wheat Workers Conference.

**Provisional plan for the submission of lines with patented or
protected genes**:

**Definition: \"protected\" gene = a gene whose use is restricted by
patents, Material Transfer Agreements, or other types of research
agreements.**

Wheat lines carrying such traits may be entered in the 2001 HWW Regional
nurseries (RGON, SRPN, NRPN) under the following conditions:

1\. Cooperators may cross with the line in question. Thereafter, the
cooperator making such crosses must either have their own research
agreement with the trait owner, or, if such an agreement is lacking,
they must remove the trait from breeding populations by selection.

2\. The owner of the trait has been informed of the submission, and that
they agree to the conditions set forth in #1.

3\. All other uses of the line are governed by the Wheat Workers Code of
Ethics.

4\. The trait may not have been inserted into the wheat genome by
genetic engineering. In other words, the wheat line in question may not
be transgenic.

At this point in time, transgenics may not be entered in the program. I
am certain this question will arise in the near future, so I have
contacted USDA-APHIS regarding this point. If you are interested in the
details, the attached file contains the pertinent points of our e-mail
exchange (note by HRSW coordinator: this file is not included in this
report). The APHIS responses are in bold. To make a long story short -
transgenic wheat lines will be allowed in the regional program only if
they have been granted permanent non-regulated status. Non-regulated
status is granted only after the originator files a formal petition to
de-regulate a line with APHIS.

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**SPRING WHEAT PRODUCTION, 2006**

***SPRING WHEAT OTHER THAN DURUM* Growers produced an estimated 460.5
million bushels of spring wheat. This production estimate is
approximately 8.7 percent lower than year 2005 production, and
approximately 19.1 percent lower than 2004. Yield averaged 33.2 bushels
per acre, a decrease of 3.9 bushels per acre from year 2005, and 10
bushels per acre lower than in year 2004. Area harvested totaled
approximately 13.9 million acres, which is slightly greater than the
acreage harvested in 2005.**

**[Spring Wheat Production Statistics, 2004-2006.]{.underline}\***

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              Acres                             Production                           Yield                    
              Harvested                         (x1000                               (Bushels/Acre)           
              (x1000)                           Bushels)                                                      

              2004        2005     2006         2004         2005      2006          2004             2005    2006

  Minnesota   1,610       1,730    1,650        88,550       70,930    77,550        55               41      47

  Montana     2,850       2,550    2,900        88,350       81,600    63,800        31               32      22

  North       5,950       6,600    6,850        243,950      224,400   212,350       41               34      31
  Dakota                                                                                                      

  South       1,530       1,690    1,420        71,910       67,600    42,600        47               40      30
  Dakota                                                                                                      

  USA         13,174      13,609   13,878       568,918      504,456   460,480       43.2             37.1    33.2
  ----------- ----------- -------- -------- --- ------------ --------- --------- --- ---------------- ------- -------

\* Source: National Agricultural Statistics Service:
(http://www.nass.usda.gov/QuickStats/index2.jsp)

**2006 NURSERY DESCRIPTION AND SUMMARY**

The Hard Red Spring Wheat Uniform Regional Nursery (HRSWURN) was planted
for the 78th year in 2006. The nursery contained 35 entries submitted by
12 different scientific or industry breeding programs, and 5 checks
(Table 1). Trials were conducted as randomized complete blocks with
three replicates except where noted. The HRSWURN was planted at 21
locations in 7 different states in the USA (MN, ND, SD, MT, NE, WY, and
WA), and two Canadian provinces (Manitoba and Saskatchewan). Twenty
locations provided data for inclusion in this report (Figure 1, Table
2). Data summaries for each of these locations are presented in Tables 3
through 22. For each location summary, entries are listed in descending
order of yield. Overall means across locations for a set of core traits
are summarized in Table 23, and yield rankings for individual locations
are found in Table 24. Two-year means for entries previously entered in
the 2005 HRSWURN are presented in Table 25. Entries were also evaluated
for various diseases at different locations; these can be found by
looking at individual location data summaries. Seedling leaf rust
resistance was evaluated in St. Paul, MN, and stripe rust evaluations
were run in fields near Pullman, WA. These data are presented in Tables
26 and 27 respectively. Lastly, entries were evaluated in a *Fusarium*
head blight nursery at Crookston, MN; these results are provided in
Table 28. The highest average yielding location was Winnipeg, Canada,
with 79.2 Bu/Ac, while the lowest yielding location was Williston, ND,
with 31.2 Bu/Ac. The average yield for 19 combined locations where the
nursery was replicated was 58.1 Bu/Ac.

**Figure 1. Hard Red SpringWheat Uniform Regional Nursery, Reporting
Locations, 2006**

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