Article: Registration of KS99WGRC42 Hessian fly resistant hard red winter wheat germplasm.(Registrations Of Germplasms)

KS99WGRC42 (Reg. no. GP-779, PI 635054) is a hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) with resistance to the Hessian fly [Mayetiola destructor (Say)] developed cooperatively by the USDA-ARS, the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, and the Wheat Genetics Resource Center. It was released as germplasm in August 1999.

KS99WGRC42 is homogeneous for resistance (antibiosis) to Biotype L of the Hessian fly based on greenhouse tests of seedlings. KS99WGRC42 is an [F.sub.5]-derived line of the cross 'Karl 92'/PI 94641//'Jagger'[sup.*]2/Karl 92. Hessian fly resistance of the germplasm is derived from PI 94641, an accession of cultivated emmer wheat [T. turgidum L. ...

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