UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
 
 in cooperation with
 
 STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS
 
 RESULTS FROM COOPERATIVE WHEAT VARIETAL
 EXPERIMENTS IN THE WESTERN REGION
 IN 1996
 
 James A. Anderson, Geneticist, Coordinator
 
 This is a joint progress report of cooperative investigations underway in the State Agricultural
 Experiment Stations and Agricultural Research Service, 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 to 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
 Agricultural Research Service and was compiled by Agricultural Research Service, U.S.
 Department of Agriculture.  The 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.
 
 CONTENTS
 
 Cooperating Agencies, Stations, and Personnel2
 Index of Tables by Nursery and Location3
 Introduction4
 Plot Management5
 Test Site Information6
 Western Regional Hard Winter Wheat Nursery7
 Western Regional Soft Winter Wheat Nursery22
 Western Regional Spring Wheat Nursery 34
 Milling and Baking Data (Morris)49
 Dwarf Bunt (Goates)86
 Stripe Rust (Line)88
 
 THE COOPERATING AGENCIES, STATIONS, AND PERSONNEL DIRECTING AND
 CONDUCTING THE NURSERY EXPERIMENTS AND THE BREEDING WORK IN THE
 WESTERN REGION IN 1996 WERE AS FOLLOWS:
 
 AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
   National Program StaffC. F. Murphy*
   Area Director Jan van Schilfgaarde*
   Coordinator J. Anderson*
   Milling and Baking Investigations C. F. Morris*
   Dwarf Bunt ScreeningB. J. Goates*
   Stripe Rust and Other Foliar DiseasesR.F. Line*
 
 CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
   Agronomy and Range Science Dept. (Davis) J.E. Hill
 TulelakeL. Jackson, J. Dubcovsky, C.O. Qualset, H. E. Vogt
 
 CANADIAN COOPERATORS
   Research Station - Lethbridge, Alberta   R. S. Sadasivaiah, D. Pearson 
 
 IDAHO AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
   Plant, Soils & Entomology L. Okeeffe
 Moscow, Bonners Ferry R. Zemetra, M. Lauver
 Aberdeen, Tetonia, Rockland, Preston E. Souza
 
 MONTANA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
   Plant & Soil Science Department T. J. McCoy
 Bozeman P. L. Bruckner, S. Lanning, L. E. Talbert
 Kalispell R. Stougaard, T. Keener
  
 OREGON AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
   Agronomic Crop Science DepartmentS. L. Ladd
 Corvallis, Klamath Falls, Pendleton, Moro 
 W. E. Kronstad, M. C. Verhoeven, R.L. Dovel, M. Moore
 
 UTAH AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
   Plant, Soils and Biometerology Department  H.G. Vest
 Logan, Blue Creek R. E. Albrechtsen, D. Hole
 
 WASHINGTON AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
   Crop and Soil Sciences Department T.A. Lumpkin
 Pullman, Lind S.S. Jones, E. Donaldson, K.K. Kidwell
 
 *USDA/ARS employees engaged in cooperative work.
 1996
 INDEX OF TABLES
 Table Page
 		REGIONAL HARD WINTER WHEAT TRIALS
 
   1	Parentage and origin of hard winter wheat entries, 1996 7
   2Mean Yield (BU/A) and Rankings 8
   3 Aberdeen, ID, irrigated (ID0102)10
   4	Bonners Ferry, rainfed (ID0104)11
   5Moscow, ID, rainfed  (ID0110)12
   6	Preston, ID, rainfed (ID0112)13
   7	Rockland, ID, rainfed (ID0114)14
   8	Tetonia, ID, rainfed (ID0119)15
   9	Bozeman, MT, rainfed (MT0101)16
  10 Kalispell, MT, rainfed (MT0122)17
  11 Moro, OR, rainfed (OR0104)18
  12 Blue Creek, UT, rainfed (UT0101)19
  13 Lind, WA, rainfed (WA0108)20
  14 Pullman, WA, rainfed (WA0156)21
   
 		REGIONAL SOFT WHITE WINTER WHEAT TRIALS
 
  15 Parentage and origin of soft white winter entries, 1996 22
  16 Mean Yield (BU/A) and Rankings23
  17 Aberdeen, ID, irrigated (ID0202)25
  18 Bonners Ferry, rainfed (ID0204)26
  19 Moscow, ID, rainfed (ID0210)27
  20 Bozeman, MT, rainfed (MT0201)28
  21 Corvallis, OR, rainfed (OR0202)29
  22 Moro, OR, rainfed (OR0204)30
  23 Pendleton, OR, rainfed (OR0206)31
  24 Lind, WA, irrigated (WA0208)32
  25 Pullman, WA, rainfed (WA0256)33
  
 		REGIONAL SPRING WHEAT TRIALS
 
  26 Parentage and origin of spring wheat entries, 1996 34
  27 Mean Yield (BU/A) and Rankings 35
  28 Aberdeen, ID, irrigated (ID0302) 37
  29 Bonners Ferry, ID, rainfed (ID0304) 38
  30 Moscow, ID, rainfed (ID0310) 39
  31 Tetonia, ID, rainfed (ID0319) 40
  32 Bozeman, MT, rainfed (MT0301) 41
  33 Kalispell, MT, rainfed (MT0322) 42
  34 Klamath Falls, OR, irrigated (OR0303)43
  35 Pendleton, OR, rainfed (OR0306)44
  36 Logan, UT, irrigated (UT0303) 45
  37 Pullman, WA, rainfed (WA0356) 46
  38 Tulelake, CA, irrigated (CA0302)47
  39 Lethbridge, AT, irrigated (AT0304)48
  
   INTRODUCTION
 
 I arrived in Pullman in July of 1996 to replace Dr. R.E. Allan as the USDA ARS Club wheat
 breeder/geneticist and coordinator of the Western Wheat Regional Nurseries.