Wheat Varieties Released by CSU

Wheat Breeding and Genetics Program
Soil and Crop Sciences Department
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

 

Since inception of breeding efforts in 1963, the following varieties have been released by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station from the CSU Wheat Breeding and Genetics Program. This list does not include varieties that were co-released with other state Agricultural Experiment Stations in the Great Plains region.
Variety Year Advantages
Thunder CL 2008 Hard white Clearfield* wheat, dryland and irrigated yield, WSMV and stripe rust resistance, quality
Bill Brown 2007 Dryland and irrigated yield, stress tolerance, leaf and stripe rust resistance
Ripper 2006 Yield, improved quality, stress tolerance
Hatcher 2004 Yield, RWA resistance, improved quality
Bond CL 2004 Yield, herbicide tolerance (Clearfield™ wheat), RWA resistance, improved quality
Ankor 2002 RWA-resistant Akron type
Above 2001 Yield, herbicide tolerance (Clearfield™ wheat)
Avalanche 2001 Yield, quality (milling and bread baking), test weight (hard white wheat)
Hayden 1999 Yield, end-use quality (western Colorado adaptation)
Prowers 99 1999 Prowers reselection, improved RWA resistance
Prairie Red 1998 RWA-resistant TAM 107 type
Prowers 1997 RWA-resistant Lamar type
Yumar 1997 RWA-resistant Yuma type
Halt 1994 Russian wheat aphid resistance (RWA), end-use quality
Akron 1994 Yield, leaf rust resistance, hail tolerance
Jules 1992 Yield, leaf rust resistance
Yuma 1991 Yield, end-use quality, straw strength
Fairview 1991 Yield, end-use quality, dwarf bunt resistance (western Colorado adaptation)
Lamar 1988 Yield, end-use quality, stand establishment
Carson 1985 Yield, straw strength, earliness
Hail 1982 Yield, kernel weight, hail tolerance
Sandy 1980 Yield, stand establishment
Duke 1980 Yield, stand establishment
Vona 1976 Yield, kernel weight
Lindon 1975 Yield, kernel weight
Baca 1972 Yield, uniformity, end-use quality


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