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OSU's Dr.Brett Carver talks Wheat Varieties at Chickasha Wheat Field Day

Mon, 02 May 2022 13:01:14 CDT

OSU's Dr.Brett Carver talks Wheat Varieties at Chickasha Wheat Field Day Chickasha Wheat Field Day took place on April 29th in Chickasha, Okla. Farm Director, KC Sheperd sat down with OSU's Dr. Brett Carver and visited about the different wheat varieties at the event and new innovations to come for the wheat industry.

Dr. Carver said he has not been to the panhandle yet, but he has been surprised with some wheat doing better than expected so far.

"The one thing that really stands out about this year is it is not 2021," Carver said. "I am just thinking, if a producer chose a variety this year thinking the results were so good in 2021, you just have to throw those results out; This is a totally different environment."

While there are wheat varieties specifically tailored to drier conditions, Carver said even those are having a hard time in this drought. A new variety of wheat called Uncharted, that Carver said was made for a drier environment even had a difficult time getting out of the ground.

"I think we are seeing drought conditions that are differentiating varieties that we have not seen before," Carver said. "At least not since 2014- That was the last year we had this level of drought."

Uncharted is a great variety Carver said, but he is realizing now it may need a slightly wetter environment.

A positive Carver has seen is that wheat spike is very long, even during severe drought conditions.

"We don't have tillers, but we have a spike that is just ready to be filled," Carver said.

The next question, Carver said is seeing if we can get the rain to fill these longer spikes.

"I am really hoping because I think that is going to be our savior for grain yield," Carver said. "That yielding ability is coming from that spike size."

Right off the top, Carver said it seems like these early maturing varieties are producing longer spikes. It kind of makes sense, he added, because they didn't have to deal with the drought as long in developing that immature spike.

"The ones that waited just have had more severe drought to deal with," Carver said. "The spike is looking good if we just had more of them and if we could fill them."

In terms of the best varieties seen at the wheat day, Carver said he is looking for the ability of wheat to come out of the ground and cover it. Also looking at the ones that could produce fertile tillers, or spikes at a high rate.

"There is so much yet to be determined," Carver said. "That high tillering capacity is going to be a problem down the road if this drought really continues like this, which it looks like it will."

Another thing we don't know about yet, Carver said, is leaf rust. It is still very early, and you can't count that one out yet, and that could change things dramatically and make us look a little bit more like 2021, he added, but without the stripe rust we are not going to be like 2021.

Carver said he is excited about experimental wheat varieties.

"It is like Christmas every year," Carver said. "We have seen the results and the hard work pay off for 10 years now come out in these newer genetics."

Carver said they are also working on ingredient varieties of wheat.

"In other words, where the wheat is not just used for flower, but as an ingredient to enhance the flower," Carver said. "That enhancement is coming from novel glutenin or novel gluten proteins we haven't had in our varieties before. They don't exist very much outside of OSU."

Carver wants to see value improved for not only in the milling and baking industry but also the consumer and producer.

"We are talking about a gluten strength far beyond what we think of as a good gluten strength," Carver said. "This is another stratosphere and we have never been here."

Carver is looking forward to seeing how they can spread desirable genetics throughout their program. As a wheat breeder, Carver added that everything is a process, so it is important to stay on the right course to succeed.

"I like where we are going," Carver said.

One thing that helps, Carver said, is the program has matured where they do not have to rely on someone else's genetics because they already have their own.

"We are at a point where we have never been before," Carver said. "We have breath in our genetics, but we also have depth."

Carver said in the future there will be more detail about some consumer-type traits, such as the kind of flower that would provide more antioxidant capacity.

"There is already natural antioxidants in wheat- we just need to bring those out more," Carver said.


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