UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
 SCIENCE AND EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION
       in cooperation with
 STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS
 
 Wheat Varieties Grown in cooperative Plot and Nursery
 Experiments in the Spring Wheat Region in 1979
 
 Hard Red Spring and Sawfly Wheat Results Coordinated & Compiled by:
 
 R.H. Busch, Research Geneticist and Technical Advisor (TA) for Spring Wheat
 
 This is a joint progress report of cooperative investigations underway in the State 
 Agricultural Experiment Stations and the Science and Education Administration of 
 the U.S. Department of Agriculture containing preliminary data which have not been 
 sufficiently confirmed to justify general release; interpretations may be modified 
 with additional experimentation. Confirmed results will be published through 
 established channels. The report is primarily a tool for use of 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 Science and Education Administration, was compiled by the Science 
 and Education Administration, 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 Science and Education Administration
 U.S. Department of Agriculture 
 North Central Region
 St. Paul, Minnesota
 
 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
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 Cooperating Agencies, Stations, and Personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1
 
 The 1979 Crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
 
 The Uniform Regional Hard Red Spring Wheat Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . 7
 
 Table 1 - Location, comparative plot management, and weather data . . .  9
 
 2 - Parts 1-23 - Agronomic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 	10
 
 3 - Mean Yields and Bushel Weights in 1979, 1978-79, and 1977-79 for 
 entries in the URHRSWPN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	        33
 
 4 - Part 1 - Seedling reaction to stem rust . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	34
 
 Part 2 - Adult stem rust reactions . . . . . . . . . . . .  . .	. . . . 35
 
 Part 3 - Adult leaf rust reactions . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . 37
 
 International Sawfly Yield Nursery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
 
 Table 5 - Parts 1-4 - Agronomic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	40
 
 6 - Average yields and bushel weights in 1979, 1978-79, and 1977-78 
     for entries in the International Sawfly Yield Nursery . . . . . .   44
 
 6 - Part 1 - Average of miscellaneous agronomic data for entries
     in the 1979 International Sawfly Yield Nursery . . . . . . . . . .  45
 
 7 - Adult leaf rust reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46