UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
 
 in cooperation with
 
 STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS
 
 Wheat Varieties Grown in Cooperative Plot
 and Nursery Experiments in the Spring Wheat Region in 1999
 
 Hard Spring Wheat Results Coordinated and Compiled by:
 R. H. Busch, Research Geneticist
 G. L. Linkert, Scientist
 L. Matthiesen, Assistant Scientist
 
 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 containing preliminary data that 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 Agricultural Research Service 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
 North Central Region
 St. Paul, Minnesota
 
 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 Cooperating Agencies, Stations and Personnel				2
 
 New Varieties								4
 
 The 1999 Crop								6
 
 The Uniform Regional Hard Red Spring Wheat Nursery.			7
 	Table 1 - Location and Comparative plot management data		8
 	Table 2 - Parts 1- 17 - Agronomic data				9
 	Table 3 - Part 1 - Mean Yields and Bushel Weights in 1999	26
 		Part 2 - Mean Yields and Bushel Weights in 1998-1999	27
 		Part 3 - Stability Parameters				28
 	Table 4 - Part I - Adult stem rust reactions			29
 		Part 2 - Adult leaf rust reactions			30
 		Part 3 - Fusarium head blight reactions, Crookston, MN	31
 		Part 4 - Fusarium head blight reactions, Morris, MN	32
 
 Part 5 - Fusarium head blight reactions, Brookings, SD			33