LACROSSE, Wash. – When LaCrosse area farmer Steve Camp takes stock of his harvest later this year, he’ll measure at least part of it in gallons instead of bushels. For the past three years, the fifth generation wheat and barley farmer has dedicated part of his operation to camelina, an […]
PULLMAN – A Hispanic Food Network program featuring the science of WSU wheat breeder Kim Kidwell, her partnership with Fred Fleming of Shepherd’s Grain Flour and his partnership with a Spokane tortilla factory and WSU dining services will air multiple times on television stations throughout eastern Washington in December and January. The […]
Carter PULLMAN – Arron Carter, a 2009 Ph.D. graduate with an emphasis in wheat breeding and genetics, is the new winter wheat breeder at Washington State University. The appointment was announced today at the annual WSU Spillman Agronomy Farm Field Day. Carter, who completed his doctoral degree at WSU in May, emerged as […]
PULLMAN – Two new spring wheat varieties will soon be available to state growers, thanks to scientists at WSU. “JD” is a new soft white, spring club variety. “Babe” is a soft white, common spring wheat. Both varieties were bred by professor Kim Kidwell, wheat breeder and associate dean for academic programs in the WSU […]
Snow mold infects turf grass. A genetic map being developed by scientists at WSU in collaboration with scientists at Japan’s National Agricultural Research Center on the northern island of Hokkaido may speed development of wheat varieties that are more resistant to snow mold. Snow mold is a fungus-caused disease of wheat and other grasses. […]
PULLMAN – Stephen S. Jones, whose wheat breeding program at Washington State University has been recognized nationally and internationally, is the new director of WSU’s Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center at Mount Vernon. Dan Bernardo, dean of the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, made the announcement today. “Steve is a […]
PULLMAN – Stephen Jones, a Washington State University wheat breeder, will partner in a multi-nation, $9-million grant from the European Commission Research Directorate-General on a research project designed to improve the production efficiency of food, feed and biofuel crops. “If we put 100 pounds of nitrogen on wheat, we are lucky if 50 pounds ends […]
PULLMAN – WSU researcher Diter von Wettstein has been awarded a four-year, $837,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to further his work on developing wheat varieties safe to eat for people who have Celiac disease. Celiac disease is a genetic digestive disease and autoimmune disorder that damages the small intestine and interferes with […]
PULLMAN – WSU has released four new wheat varieties for commercialization, including Xerpha, a soft-white common winter wheat, which is highly adapted to a broad range of production zones in Washington, Oregon, southern Idaho and northern California. “WSU’s job is to work in partnership with industry so growers will have the best varieties possible,” said […]
WSU is seeking international patent protection on Scarlet Rz1, a new spring wheat genotype believed to be the first to have resistance to Rhizoctonia root rot, a yield-limiting root disease found world-wide. “This is the first wheat genotype that we know of that has tolerance to this disease,” said Kim Kidwell, interim spring wheat […]