from Ken Kephart, 2/93
Commercial Wheat Cultivars of the United States
Gopher Database Version 1.1
Kenneth D. Kephart, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Agronomy
University of Missouri-Columbia
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"History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but
scorns the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the
King's bastard children, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. That
is the way of human folly..."
Jean Henri Fabre
French Entomologist and Philosopher
1823-1915
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Introduction:
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The production of wheat in the North America dates back to the
arrival of the Europeans who first colonized this continent, bringing
with them the seed of the crops necessary for their survival in the
new world. Until the late 1800's, wheat production in the United
States was based on the landrace cultivars introduced by colonist and
immigrants. With the knowledge of genetics and modern plant breeding
techniques, public and private wheat breeding programs have replaced
the landrace cultivars during the past century with modern cultivars.
This compendium was developed from a database containing reference
information on over 1,600 distinct cultivars that have been commercial
produced in the United States during the past 100 to 150 years. While
every effort has been made to make this compendium as comprehensive as
possible, some information is not available for certain cultivars.
To search the Commercial Wheat Cultivars database, select menu option
#2. A text box will appear, prompting you to type a search word. The
indexing strategy used provides pointers to each word that occurs in
all of the records. Selection for a particular cultivar name will
retrieve all records that possess that name regardless of where it
occurs in the document files. Multiple records will be retrieved for
searches where a particular cultivar appears in the pedigree of other
cultivars or may have been named as a check cultivar in registration
statements. The reserved words "and" and "not' facilitate Boolean
searches. Quotation marks are used to group hyphenated or multiple
words into search phrases (e.g. "CV-100", "Norin 10 / Brevor"). Use
of the asterisk "*" as the last character of a search word provides
wild card searches (e.g. "Car*" locates "Carleton", "Cardon",
"Carson", "Cardinal", etc.). Selected records can be mailed to any
valid Internet address or saved as text files on local host
directories. Updates, new records and additional information will be
added to newer versions of the database as new information sources
become available.
Version 1.1 (6/93):
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The reference to "Appendix A" in the "About References" section has
been eliminated. Full citation list is now available for browsing by
selecting menu option #16, "Full Reference Listing". Saving this
section to a file requires approximately 135K of free disk space.
Column headers of Table 1 in "About Place of Origin" section are
repeated every 20 lines. Tree diagramns of example pedigrees added
to aid interpretation of Purdy system nomenclature.