Colorado State University releases 6 new wheat varieties

    Colorado State University has released six new winter wheat varieties for planting by certified seed producers in the fall of 2018.
    Among these varieties are two conventional hard red varieties, two hard white varieties, one hard red two-gene Clearfield™ wheat and one hard red CoAXium™ wheat.
    These new wheat varieties have been developed by Dr. Scott Haley, CSU’s wheat breeding and genetics program leader. After a wheat variety is released, ownership is transferred to the Colorado Wheat Research Foundation and marketed under Colorado’s PlainsGold brand name.
    Proceeds from these new varieties are then re-invested back into the CSU wheat breeding program, the CSU Crops Testing program and other wheat-related research programs.
    Canvas is a hard red winter wheat with excellent yield potential. It is a medium maturity, medium short variety with strong straw strength. It currently carries good stripe and stem rust tolerance. Canvas had good wheat streak mosaic virus tolerance through a gene for resistance to the wheat curl mite. It has excellent test weight and milling/baking characteristics.

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