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Article: Registration of 'DW' wheat.(Registrations Of Cultivars)
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- Crop Science
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- July 1, 2004
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'DW' hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) (Reg. no. CV-948, PI 620629) was released in 2001 by the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station. DW is a semidwarf wheat adapted to rain-fed production zones of the Pacific Northwest area of the USA. It was released on the basis of its high grain yield and superior bread baking quality. DW is named for D.W. Sunderman, a wheat breeder at the Aberdeen location with both the USDA-ARS (1963-1986) and University of Idaho (1986-1988).
DW is a selection from the 1985 cross A8616W with the pedigree A81710WSW-54/'Blizzard' (Sunderman et al., 1991). The selection A81710SW-54 (pedigree 'WAID'/2*'Borah'// 'Neeley') was ...