Nebraska Wheat Board Annual Reports

Nebraska Wheat Board Annual Reports - 2009

• Advanced screening for evaluating wheat streak mosaic virus resistance for quality Nebraska wheats; Gary Hein, Dept. Entomology, Lincoln
• Mitigating winter wheat losses caused by rust diseases, wheat streak mosaic, and tan spot; Stephen Wegulo, Dept. Plant Pathology, Lincoln
• Establishing a pipeline for the evaluation of novel input and output traits in wheat derived from the tools of biotechnology; Tom Clemente, Dept. Agronomy & Horticulture, Lincoln
• Integrating molecular markers into wheat breeding for Nebraska; Ismail Dweikat and P. Stephen Baenziger, Dept. Agronomy & Horticulture, Lincoln
• Improved tolerance to preharvest sprouting in Nebraska wheats; Robert Graybosch, USDA-ARS, Lincoln
• Selecting Nebraska wheat for processing needs of domestic and foreign markets; Lan Xu and P. Stephen Baenziger, Dept. Agronomy & Horticulture, Lincoln
• Wheat variety testing; Teshome Regassa, Dept. Agronomy & Horticulture, Lincoln
• Improving wheat varieties for Nebraska; P. Stephen Baenziger, Dept. Agronomy & Horticulture, Lincoln
• To fallow or not to fallow; Drew Lyon, Panhandle Res. & Ext. Ctr., Scottsbluff
• Promoting hard white winter wheat as an ingredient to Nebraska food manufacturers; Julie Reiling, David Ricket, and Mark Hutchinson, Food Processing Ctr., Lincoln
• Improved nitrogen management for high quality white wheat; Gary Hergert, Panhandle Res. & Ext. Ctr., Scottsbluff
• Development of wheat based automotive composites using wheat gluten as the matrix polymer and wheat straw as the reinforcement material; Yiqi Yang, Dept. Textiles, Clothing & Design, Lincoln