WB4303

Overview

Description: WB4303 is a common hard red winter wheat adapted to the Central and Southern Plains. It shows some preliminary resistance tan spot and leaf rust. WB4303 is a semi-dwarf hard red winter wheat. The head is strap shaped, dense, awned and inclined at maturity. The auricles are absent of anthocyanin and pubescence. The chaff color is white at maturity and the stem is hollow. The glume shoulders are rounded with an acuminate beak. The seed is hard, red, and oval with rounded cheeks. The brush is medium with no collar.

Genealogy: PFAU/WEAVER/3/MASON/JGR// PECOS/4/FARMEC

Phenotypic variant: 10-15 cm taller occurs at a frequency of .2% (20 plants per 10,000).  An awnless variant may occur at a frequency of .1% (10 plants per 10,000). A bronze chaff variant may occur at a frequency of .1% (10/10,000). 

Seed variant: A white seed variant may occur at a frequency of up to .25% (25 seeds per 10,000).

Kind

HRWW

Glume Shoulder Width

Medium

Vernalization 

Winter

Glume Beak Shape

Acuminate

Coleoptile Anthocyanin

Absent

Glume Length 

Long

Juvenile Plant Growth

Erect

Glume Width

Medium

Plant Color (Boot)

Green

Seed Shape

Ovate

Plant Height 

86 cm

Seed Cheek

Rounded

Anther Color 

Yellow

Seed Brush

Medium

Internodes

Hollow

Seed Crease Width

80% or less

Head Density 

Dense

Seed Crease Depth

35% or less

Head Shape

Strap

Seed Color

Red

Head Curvature

Recurved

Seed Texture

Hard

Head Awnsess

Awned

Seed Weight per 1000 Seeds

40 g

Glume Color

White

Seed Germ Size

Large

Glume Shoulder

Rounded



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