D. B. Fowler

CDC Kestrel winter wheat

CDC Kestrel is a lodging-resistant, high-yielding, semidwarf winter wheat with good winterhardiness and rust tolerance that is superior to Norstar. CDC Kestrel is eligible for grades of the Canada Western Red Winter Wheat class. Key words: Triticum aestivum L., cultivar description, wheat (winter)

CDC Falcon winter wheat

CDC Falcon is a high-yielding, lodging-resistant, semidwarf winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) with good winter hardiness and excellent stem and leaf rust resistance. CDC Falcon is the first winter wheat cultivar with a high level of leaf and stem rust resistance to be registered for production in western Canada. It is especially well adapted to the high-moisture and rust-hazard regions of the western Canadian prairies. CDC Falcon is eligible for grades of the Canada Western Red Winter Wheat class. Key words: Triticum aestivum L., cultivar description, wheat (winter)

CDC Buteo hard red winter wheat

CDC Buteo is a hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar that is eligible for grades of the Canada Western Red Winter Wheat class. It is an intermediate height cultivar with moderate stem and leaf rust resistance and good winter hardiness and grain yield potential. It is adapted to the western Canadian prairies where its agronomic and disease package combined with an excellent grain quality profile has resulted in wide commercial acceptance in Saskatchewan. CDC Buteo was made the wheat quality standard for the Central Winter Wheat Co-operative Registration Trials in 2008.Key words: Triticum aestivum L., cultivar description, wheat (winter)

CDC Clair winter wheat

CDC Clair is a high-yielding, strong-strawed, semidwarf winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) with good winterhardiness. When grown in western Canada, it has the high grain yield and agronomic performance of CDC Kestrel, but improved grain quality. The grain protein concentration of CDC Clair has been higher than that of CDC Kestrel and similar to Norstar. CDC Clair is eligible for grades of the Canada Western Red Winter Wheat class. Key words: Triticum aestivum L., cultivar description, wheat (winter)

Influence of protein concentration on farinograph absorption, mixing requirements and mixing tolerance

Accurate and precise measurements of grain quality traits are required throughout the wheat (Triticum aestivum L. Em. Thell.) production and marketing chain to ensure that quality standards are maintained. In the present study, spring and winter wheat genotypes representing a wide range of grain quality types and protein concentration (PC) were grown in dry land and irrigated nitrogen fertilizer trials in western Canada to determine the influence of flour PC and quality on farinograph water absorption, mixing requirements and mixing tolerance. As expected, there was a strong linear relationship between PC and water absorption. In contrast, PC had a large nonlinear influence on mixing requirements and tolerance measurements, which made it difficult to make meaningful comparisons among genotypes when flour PC was less than 12%. Consequently, because cultivar grain yield potential, environment, and fertilizer management decisions have a large and variable influence on PC, it is important that cultivar select...

Accipiter hard red winter wheat

Fowler, D. B. 2011. Accipiter hard red winter wheat. Can. J. Plant Sci. 91: 363–365. Accipiter is an intermediate height, high-yielding, winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar with good stem and moderate leaf rust resistance that is registered for production in western Canada. It is a hard red winter wheat cultivar that is eligible for grades of the Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) wheat class. The CWGP class was created in 2007 to encourage the development of cultivars to fill the high energy demands of the biofuel and livestock feed markets in western Canada. The grain yield of Accipiter was 114% of the Canada Western Red Winter Wheat class grain quality check cultivar, CDC Osprey, and 103% of the high-yielding check, CDC Falcon. High grain yield potential combined with good agronomic and disease packages make Accipiter a good fit for the CWGP class.

CDC Raptor winter wheat

CDC Raptor is a high-yielding, lodging-resistant, semidwarf winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) with good winter hardiness. It has stem and leaf rust resistance that is similar to CDC Falcon and superior to all other winter wheat cultivars registered for production in western Canada. CDC Raptor is eligible for grades of the Canada Western Red Winter Wheat class. Key words: Triticum aestivum L., cultivar description, wheat (winter).

CDC Harrier winter wheat

CDC Harrier is a winter-hardy, strong-strawed, semidwarf winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) with the high grain yield and agronomic performance of CDC Kestrel. CDC Harrier is the first winter wheat cultivar with a high level of stem rust resistance to be registered for production in western Canada. The grain quality characteristics of CDC Harrier are similar to thos of CDC Kestrel. CDC Harrier is eligible for grades of the Canada Western Red Winter Wheat class. Key words: Triticum aestivum L., cultivar description, wheat (winter)