Source: UNIV OF MINNESOTA submitted to NRP
SPRING WHEAT BREEDING AND GENETICS
Sponsoring Institution
State Agricultural Experiment Station
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
STATE
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
1009943
Grant No.
(N/A)
Cumulative Award Amt.
(N/A)
Proposal No.
(N/A)
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Jul 1, 2016
Project End Date
Jun 30, 2021
Grant Year
(N/A)
Program Code
[(N/A)]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
UNIV OF MINNESOTA
(N/A)
ST PAUL,MN 55108
Performing Department
Agronomy & Plant Genetics
Non Technical Summary
Spring wheat was grown on more than 1.3 million acres annually in Minnesota from 2011-2015, ranking 3rd behind soybeans and corn. Improved cultivars are one of the most important components of profitable wheat production. Wheat yields must increase in order for this crop to remain economically viable in Minnesota. One intended outcome of our research is new disease resistant, high yielding cultivars with good end-use quality. Traits that are targets of our breeding program include the dieseases Fusarium head blight, leaf rust, stem rust, and bacterial leaf streak, and end-use quality. There has been an increased importance placed on the end-use quality of Minnesota-grown wheat. Importers are demanding more consistent quality and domestically, millers are increasingly purchasing grain from specific cultivars that are best suited for producing their products.A comprehensive genetic and breeding approach is necessary to respond to these needs. Genetic studies will be utilized to identify the chromosomal locations and DNA markers for genes influencing disease resistance and grain quality. DNA markers will be used to characterize crossing parents for essential genes and also to make selections in early generations. Genomic selection strategies will be implemented and evaluated for their ability to improve overall efficiency and genetic gain for the breeding program. In addition, we coordinate the testing of commercially available cultivars per year in statewide trials to assess their performance in yield nurseries and reactions to important diseases. This information is critical to growers to make informed choices regarding cultivars.
Animal Health Component
25%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
25%
Applied
25%
Developmental
50%
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
2011541108175%
2011541108025%
Knowledge Area
201 - Plant Genome, Genetics, and Genetic Mechanisms;

Subject Of Investigation
1541 - Hard red spring wheat;

Field Of Science
1081 - Breeding; 1080 - Genetics;
Goals / Objectives
1. Develop superior spring wheat cultivars2. Genetically enhance spring wheat germplasm3. Utilize DNA marker technologies to improve breeding program efficiencies4. Train graduate students
Project Methods
METHODS OF PROCEDURE (APPROACH): Objective 1. Develop superior spring wheat cultivarsA modified bulk breeding method will be utilized to develop superior spring wheat cultivars and germplasm. These procedures may change based on the success of genomic selection as described in Objective 3.Most of the biparental crosses will be among elite germplasm from the U of M hard red spring breeding program Three-way and backcrosses will be used, especially when less adapted materials containing new genes for high priority traits are being crossed. Two generations (F3 and F6) will be grown in winter nurseries to provide generation advance (F3) and seed increase (F6), saving two years in the development of new cultivars. Yield trials will be sown as 4.65 m2 plots in a single replicate with repeated checks. Experimental design for the MN Variety trials will be a randomized complete block with 3 replicates, also using 4.65 m2 plots. All yield trials will be designed for row-column analysis using GenStat statistical software to account for spatial variation and reduce C.V.'s. Other agronomic characteristics routinely examined will include heading date, plant height, lodging, shattering, as well as any diseases that appear.Intensive screening for reaction to leaf rust and stem rust will occur in the F2, F4, and F5 generations. The F2 and F4 generations will be grown in plot areas that contain susceptible spreader rows inoculated with the stem rust and leaf rust pathogens. In addition, all materials in the preliminary yield trial stage or later are grown in a rust nursery managed to produce high levels of disease. Scientists (J. Kolmer, M. Rouse, Y. Jin) in the USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory maintain and distribute inoculum and record reaction of materials in the rust nursery.Screening for reaction to Fusarium head blight will be a major component of the wheat improvement project. Dr. R. Dill-Macky produces and distributes inoculum for the St. Paul nursery and Dr. Madeleine Smith provides this service for the Crookston nursery. Visual assessment of FHB symptoms in the field will be done approximately 20 days after anthesis. A sample of 100+ spikes per row will be harvested, and after careful cleaning of grain, the percentage of visually scabby grain will be estimated. DON content will be determined from a bulk of grain from all replications of the most advanced nurseries (~800 total DON samples per year).End-use quality will be evaluated beginning with grain harvested from the F5 nursery and every generation thereafter. Grain samples of F5 lines selected for acceptable agronomic appearance, seed color/size/shape, and disease reaction (FHB nursery in Crookston and St. Paul and other diseases as they appear) will be analyzed for test weight, grain protein content, grain size and hardness, and flour mixing properties via the mixograph at the USDA-ARS Wheat Quality Laboratory in Fargo, ND or Glutopeak instrument in cooperation with personnel in the Food Science & Nutrition Dept. Grain samples of all materials in preliminary and advanced yield trials will be sent to the USDA-ARS lab for the same measurements of end-use quality as listed above in addition to milling, flour color, and bread-making characteristics. All materials in advanced yield trials will be tested for preharvest sprouting reaction at two locations each year following the methods of Anderson et al. (1983).Data of new breeding lines that merit release consideration will be provided to the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station Crop Variety Review Committee which makes recommendations regarding further seed increase and release. We test all hard red spring wheat cultivars grown in Minnesota on more than 1% of the total acreage for performance in yield trials, disease nurseries, and measures of end-use quality. Results of these evaluations are published in Prairie Grains magazine which is subscribed to by most spring wheat growers, and the U of MN Varietal Trials Results publication at www.maes.umn.edu/. Varieties and released germplasm with high levels of FHB resistance will be announced as registration articles in The Journal of Plant Registrations.Objective 2. Genetically enhance spring wheat germplasmFour diseases: FHB, bacterial leaf streak, leaf rust, and stem rust (including resistance to race Ug99), will be the main focus of spring wheat germplasm enhancement in the next five years. Materials evaluated in the course of the breeding program (Objective 1) will be evaluated for these diseases in greenhouse and field-based tests. Materials with high levels of resistance, regardless of their status in the breeding program, will be re-screened in field nurseries the following year to confirm that they have high levels of resistance. Fusarium head blight resistant lines will be considered for inclusion in regional FHB trials based on i) the resistance level observed in two years of screening in Minnesota; ii) the likelihood of the material containing novel FHB resistance genes (i.e. genes not already present in HRS germplasm); and iii) other agronomic characteristics. We plan to submit breeding lines to other regional and international disease screening efforts, including a regional bacterial leaf streak nursery (18 lines per program plus named varieties) coordinated by Dr. Dill-Macky; African stem rust nurseries coordinated by USDA-ARS (~60 entries annually). Superior materials will be used as crossing parents and may also be released as germplasm and/or be used as a parent for subsequent gene mapping research (see Objective 3).New sources of resistance will be evaluated each year. These sources are available from regional testing activities, U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative germplasm screening coordinators, plant pathologists at the University of Minnesota and elsewhere, CIMMYT, and other international contacts. Germplasm will be tested under field and greenhouse conditions. Promising lines will be used as parents in crosses with highly susceptible materials to develop mapping populations for the disease of interest. Crosses and backcrosses with elite breeding lines will be made to move the resistance genes into acceptable agronomic backgrounds.Objective 3. Utilize DNA marker technologies to improve breeding program efficiencies.DNA marker technology will be used to locate genes influencing traits that are difficult to manipulate using conventional breeding and selection procedures or when gene pyramiding is desired. The main focus will be on mapping resistance genes for FHB, leaf rust and stem rust, and bacterial leaf streak in the next five years and using these genes in a marker-assisted selection program to introgress them into elite germplasm. All potential crossing parents, F6 lines, and selected BC1 and 3-way crosses will be characterized for their DNA marker haplotype for important genes including FHB QTLs on chromosomes 3BS (Fhb1) and 5AS; leaf rust resistance genes Lr21 and Lr34; the high molecular weight glutenins Glu-A1 and Glu-D1 (Liu et al., 2008); the semi-dwarfing genes Rht1 and Rht2; vernalization genes (Vrn-1); tan spot resistance gene tsn1, as well as other markers discovered or reported for genes of interest during the next five years.In the next five year period, we will test the hypothesis that 1) Genomic selection models trained using F5 lines will have adequate prediction accuracy for FHB resistance and end-use quality traits. Our aim is to reduce our field testing of F5 lines to 300-500 vs. our current 2,000 lines and predict the remaining 1,500-1,700 lines based on the GBS genotypes by the 2017 growing season, if genomic selection is promising.Objective 4. Train graduate students The activities described in objectives 1-3, especially objective 3, will provide training opportunities for graduate students that will be supported by the national competitive funding and as well as international agencies such as US-AID.

Progress 07/01/16 to 06/30/21

Outputs
Target Audience:Wheat growers in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest Wheat Industry Wheat Breeders and Researchers Plant Breeders Postdoctoral Associates Graduate Students Undergraduate Students Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Two post-doctoral research associates and five graduate students were mentored during this reporting period. In addition, two full-time and one part-time technical staff assisted with our research activities. All of these individuals participated in weekly lab meetings where they had the opportunity to learn of the research of others in our group and contribute suggestions to improve productivity, data quality, and improve analysis methodology. Postdocs and graduate students are encouraged to attend one or more conferences per year to present results of their research. During this reporting period, project members presented their research virtually at the American Society of Agronomy Annual meetings, National Fusarium Head Blight Forum, and National Biodiesel board technical workshop, and USDA-NIFA Plant Biofeedstock PI/PD meeting. In addition, project personnel attended numerous online seminars on topics ranging from agronomy to plant breeding How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Data from the yield and disease nurseries are summarized and published in Prairie Grains and the MAES's Minnesota Varietal Trials Results. Also, the publications listed earlier and other talks listed earlier and reproduced below. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The breeding program will function similar to the last year. We continue to adopt genomewide selection but will be switching to a training model composed of previous PY generations.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? During the 2020/2021 crossing cycle, 218 crosses were made. The 2021 State Variety Trial, which contained 39 released varieties, 11 University of Minnesota experimental lines, 2 experimental lines from other programs, and 3 long term checks was grown at 15 locations. Another 186 advanced experimental lines were evaluated in advanced yield trials at 10-11 locations and 504 lines were evaluated in preliminary yield trials at 3 locations. A total of 7,019 yield plots were harvested in 2021. Fusarium-inoculated, misted nurseries were established at Crookston and St. Paul. An inoculated leaf and stem rust nursery was conducted at St. Paul. DNA sequence information was obtained from 2,725 pre-yield trial lines and their FHB resistance and dough mixing properties were predicted based on a training set of 197 lines and their 71 parents. The predictions based on DNA sequence information were used to help select the 504 preliminary yield trial lines from the 2,725 candidate lines, therefore avoiding more expensive and time-consuming field-based evaluations on more than 2,000 lines with low genetic potential. Data from the yield and disease nurseries are summarized and published in Prairie Grains and the MAES's 2021 Minnesota Field Crop Variety Trials (https://varietytrials.umn.edu). MN15005-4 (Prosper/MN08301-6//Norden) is a candidate for release in January 2022 . MN15005-4 has grain yields comparable to Shelly, straw strength comparable to Linkert, and average grain protein. Disease resistance and baking quality are acceptable. University of Minnesota developed spring wheat varieties accounted for an estimated 31.4% of Minnesota's 1.21 million spring wheat acres in 2021. More than 397,000 acres of MN-developed spring wheat varieties also were grown in North Dakota in 2021

Publications

  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Frels, K. R. Chopra, Z. Tandukar, M.D. Marks, and J.A. Anderson. 2020. Field Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) Genome Unlocks Structural and Genetic Variation. ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meetings 2020, November 9-13, 2020, (Virtual).
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Tandukar, Z., K. Frels, R.Chopra, M.D. Marks, and J.A.Anderson. 2020. Pennycress: A potential cash cover crop with major financial and environmental benefits. National Biodiesel board technical workshop. Online. November 12, 2020.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Adeyemo, E., P. Bajgain, and J.A. Anderson. 2020. Leveraging consecutive breeding populations to train genomic prediction models for Fhb resistance in wheat. In: S. Canty, A. Hofstetter, B. Wiermer, and R. Dill-Macky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2020 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum. East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Hay, W.T., S.P. McCormick, M.P. Hojila-Evangelista, M. J. Bowman, R.O. Dunn, M.A. Berhow, J.A. Anderson and M.M. Vaughan. 2020. Rising CO2 more Severely Impacts FHB Moderately Resistant HRSW Compared to Susceptible Cultivars. In: S. Canty, A. Hofstetter, B. Wiermer, and R. Dill-Macky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2020 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum. East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2021 Citation: Tandukar, Z. R. Chopra, K. Frels, M. Eshafanian, B. Jarvis, L. Gautam, D. Marchiafava, N. Jaikulmar, J.N Sedbrook, M.D. Marks, and J. Anderson. 2021. Genetic improvement of seed yield and oil content in field pennycress. USDA-NIFA Plant Biofeedstock PI/PD meeting, Genomic Sciences Program (GSP) Annual Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting (virtual, 2/23/21)
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Anderson J.A, J.J. Wiersma, S. Reynolds, N. Stuart, H. Lindell, R. Dill-Macky, J. Kolmer, M. Rouse, Y. Jin, and L. Dykes. 2021. 2021 Hard Red Spring Wheat Field Crop Trials Results. In: 2020 Minnesota Field Crop Trials. Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2021 Citation: Kolmer J, M.K .Turner, M.N. Rouse, and J.A. Anderson. 2021. Adult plant leaf rust resistance in AC Taber wheat maps to chromosomes 2BS and 3BS. Phytopathol. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-03-20-0074-R.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2021 Citation: Bajgain, P. A.H. Sallam G. Annor, E. Conley, B.J. Steffenson, G..J Muehlbauer, and J.A. Anderson. 2021. Genetic characterization of flour quality and bread?making traits in a spring wheat nested association mapping population. Crop Sci. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20432
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2021 Citation: Altendorf, K.R., L.R. DeHaan, G.C. Heineck, X.F. Zhang, and J.A. Anderson. 2021. Floret site utilization and reproductive tiller number are primary components of grain yield in intermediate wheatgrass spaced plants. Crop Sci. 61:1073-1088, DOI: 10.1002/csc2.20385
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2021 Citation: Altendorf, K.R., S.R. Larson, L.R. DeHaan, J. Crain, J. Neyhart, K.M. Dorn, and J.A. Anderson. 2021. Nested association mapping reveals the genetic architecture of spike emergence and anthesis timing in intermediate wheatgrass. G3. 11(3) DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab025
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2021 Citation: Anderson, J.A., J.J. Wiersma, S.K. Reynolds, E.J. Conley, R. Caspers, G.L. Linkert, J.A. Kolmer, Y. Jin, M.N. Rouse, R. Dill-Macky, M.J. Smith, L. Dykes, and J.-B. Ohm. 2021. Registration of 'MN-Washburn' Hard Red Spring Wheat Containing Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Resistance Gene bdv2. J. Plant Registrations, https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20130.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2021 Citation: Altendorf, K.R., L.R. DeHaan, S.R. Larson, and J.A. Anderson. 2021. QTL for seed shattering and threshability in intermediate wheatgrass align closely with well-studied orthologs from wheat, barley, and rice. Plant Genome. DOI:10.1002/tpg2.20145
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2021 Citation: Bajgain, P., and J.A. Anderson. 2021. Multi-Allelic Haplotype-Based Association Analysis Identifies Genomic Regions Controlling Domestication Traits in Intermediate Wheatgrass. Agriculture. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11070667
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2021 Citation: Rauf, Y., P. Bajgain, M. Rouse, K.A. Khanzada, S. Bhavani, J. Huerta-Espino, R.P. Singh, M. Imtiaz, and J.A. Anderson. 2021. Molecular Characterization of Genomic Regions for Adult Plant Resistance to Stem Rust in a Spring Wheat Mapping Population. Plant Disease. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-03-21-0672-RE
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2021 Citation: Anderson, J.A., J.J. Wiersma, S.K. Reynolds, E.J. Conley, R. Caspers, G.L. Linkert, J.A. Kolmer, Y. Jin, M.N. Rouse, R. Dill-Macky, M.J. Smith, L. Dykes, and J.-B. Ohm. 2021. Registration of 'Lang-MN' hard red spring wheat. J. Plant Registrations, https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20099.


Progress 10/01/19 to 09/30/20

Outputs
Target Audience:Wheat growers in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest Wheat Industry Wheat Breeders and Researchers Plant Breeders Postdoctoral Associates Graduate Students Undergraduate Students Changes/Problems:COVID-19 restrictions had minimal effect on the wheat breeding program. We planted fewer spring wheat genetic studies, but mainline breeding activities were largely unaffected with the exception that we were not able to collect grain quality samples from as many locations as we usually do. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Two post-doctoral research associates and five graduate students were mentored during this reporting period. In addition, two full-time and one part-time technical staff assisted with our research activities. All of these individuals participated in weekly lab meetings where they had the opportunity to learn of the research of others in our group and contribute suggestions to improve productivity, data quality, and improve analysis methodology. Postdocs and graduate students are encouraged to attend one or more conferences per year to present results of their research. During this reporting period, project members presented their research at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference, and American Society of Agronomy Annual meetings, National Fusarium Head Blight Forum, and National Biodiesel Conference. In addition, project personnel attended numerous online seminars on topics ranging from agronomy to plant breeding. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Data from the yield and disease nurseries are summarized and published in Prairie Grains and the MAES's Minnesota Varietal Trials Results. Also, the publications listed earlier and other talks listed earlier and reproduced below. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The breeding program will function similar to the last year. We continue to adopt genomewide selection but will be switching to a training model composed of previous PY generations.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? During the 2019/2020 crossing cycle, 239 crosses were made. The 2020 State Variety Trial, which contained 38 released varieties, 12 University of Minnesota experimental lines, 3 experimental lines from other programs, and 3 long term checks was grown at 15 locations. Another 173 advanced experimental lines were evaluated in advanced yield trials at 10-11 locations and 360 lines were evaluated in preliminary yield trials at 3 locations. A total of 6,864 yield plots were harvested in 2020. Fusarium-inoculated, misted nurseries were established at Crookston and St. Paul. An inoculated leaf and stem rust nursery was conducted at St. Paul. The disease nurseries involve collaboration with agronomists and pathologists at Crookston and with personnel from the Plant Pathology Department and the USDA-ARS. DNA sequence information was obtained from 2,763 pre-yield trial lines and their FHB resistance and dough mixing properties were predicted based on a training set of 544 lines. The predictions based on DNA sequence information were used to help select the 360 preliminary yield trial lines from the 2,763 candidate lines, therefore avoiding more expensive and time consuming field-based evaluations on more than 2,000 lines with low genetic potential. Data from the yield and disease nurseries are summarized and published in Prairie Grains and the MAES's 2020 Minnesota Field Crop Trials bulletin. MN-Torgy (Sabin/01S0377-6//Linkert) was released in 2020. MN-Torgy has grain yield between Shelly and MN-Washburn but has higher grain protein than both and also better straw strength and bacterial leaf streak resistance compared with Shelly. MN-Torgy has acceptable baking quality (4) and good disease resistance, among the best for bacterial leaf streak (3) and moderately resistant to scab (4). MN15005-4 (Prosper/MN08301-6//Norden) is a candidate for release currently undergoing seed increase in California. MN15005-4 has grain yields comparable to Shelly, straw strength comparable to Linkert, and average grain protein. Disease resistance and baking quality are acceptable. University of Minnesota developed spring wheat varieties accounted for an estimated 34.5% of Minnesota's 1.43 million spring wheat acres in 2020, including 'Linkert' which was the no. 1 variety for the 5th consecutive year. More than 507,000 acres of MN-developed spring wheat varieties also were grown in North Dakota in 2020. Recent releases include 'Linkert' (2013), 'Bolles' (2015), 'Shelly' (2016), 'Lang-MN' (2017), MN-Washburn (2019), and MN-Torgy (2020).

Publications

  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Adeyemo, E., P. Bajgain, and J.A. Anderson. 2020. Leveraging consecutive breeding populations to train genomic prediction models for Fhb resistance in wheat. In: S. Canty, A. Hofstetter, B. Wiermer, and R. Dill-Macky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2020 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum. East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Bajgain, P., X. Zhang and J.A. Anderson. 2020. Development of intermediate wheatgrass as a next-generation sustainable crop using genomics-assisted breeding & domestication. Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Exhibition, April 28, 2020. Minneapolis, MN (USA)
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Frels, K. R. Chopra, Z. Tandukar, M.D. Marks, and J.A. Anderson. 2020. Field Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) Genome Unlocks Structural and Genetic Variation. ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meetings 2020, November 9-13, 2020, (Virtual).
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Frels,K., R. Chopra, Z. Tandukar J. Sedbrook, M.D. Marks, and J.A. Anderson. 2020. Investigating Seed Size and Oil Content in Pennycress, Thlaspi arvense. 2020 Genomic Sciences Program (GSP) Annual Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting, February 23-26, 2020, Washington, D.C.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Tandukar, Z., K. Frels, R.Chopra, M.D. Marks, and J.A.Anderson. 2020. Understanding the genetic basis of variation in seed size and oil content in Pennycress. Plant and Animal Genome Meeting XXVIII, January 11-15, 2020, San Diego, CA.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Tandukar, Z., K. Frels, R.Chopra, M.D. Marks, and J.A.Anderson. 2020. Pennycress is a potential source of sustainable and renewable biofuel and jet fuel production. VISION - National Biodiesel Conference and Expo, January 20-23, 2020 Tampa, FL
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Tandukar, Z., K. Frels, R.Chopra, M.D. Marks, and J.A.Anderson. 2020. Pennycress: A potential cash cover crop with major financial and environmental benefits. Next Generation Scientists for Biodiesel. Online. September 10, 2020.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Tandukar, Z., K. Frels, R.Chopra, M.D. Marks, and J.A.Anderson. 2020. Pennycress: A potential cash cover crop with major financial and environmental benefits. National Biodiesel board technical workshop. Online. November 12, 2020.
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Anderson J.A, J.J. Wiersma, S. Reynolds, N. Stuart, H. Lindell, R. Dill-Macky, J. Kolmer, M. Rouse, Y. Jin, and L. Dykes. 2020. 2020 Hard Red Spring Wheat Field Crop Trials Results. In: 2020 Minnesota Field Crop Trials. Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Adeyemo, E., P. Bajgain, E. Conley, A.H. Sallam, and J.A. Anderson. 2020. Optimizing training population size and content to improve prediction accuracy of FHB-related traits in wheat. Agronomy 10, 543; doi:10.3390/agronomy10040543
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Bajgain P., Y. Jin, T.J. Tsilo, G.K. Macharia, S.E. Reynolds, R. Wanyera, and J.A. Anderson. 2020. Registration of KUWNSr, a wheat stem rust nested association mapping population. J Plant Regist. https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20043
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Bajgain, P., X. Zhang, J. Jungers, L.R. DeHaan, B. Heim, C. Sheaffer, D.L. Wyse, and J.A. Anderson. 2020. MN-Clearwater, the first food-grade intermediate wheatgrass (Kernza perennial grain) cultivar. J Plant Regist. https://doi.org/10.1002/plr2.20042
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Bajgain, P., X. Zhang, J.A. Anderson. 2020. Dominance and G�E interaction effects improve genomic prediction and genetic gain in intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium). Plant Genome. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20012
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Chopra, R. E.B. Johnson, R. Emenecker, E.B. Cahoon, J. Lyons, D.J. Kliebenstei4, E. Daniels, K.M. Dorn, M. Esfahanian, N. Folstad, K. Frels, M. McGinn , M. Ott, C. Gallaher7, K. Altendorf, A. Berroyer, B. Ismail, J.A. Anderson, D.L. Wyse, T. Ulmasov, J.C. Sedbrook, and M. David Marks. 2020. Identification and stacking of crucial traits required for the domestication of pennycress. Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-019-0007-z
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Crain, J., P. Bajgain, J. Anderson, X. Zhang, L. DeHaan, and J. Poland. 2020. Enhancing crop domestication through genomic selection, a case study of Intermediate Wheatgrass. Front. Plant Sci. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00319
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: ElFatih, A., A. ElDoliefy, A. Kumar, J.A. Anderson, K.D. Glover, S. Mamidi, E.M. Elias, R. Seetan, M.S. Alamri, S.F. Kianian, S. Sapkota, A. Green, and M. Mergoum. 2020. Genetic dissection of Fusarium head blight resistance in spring wheat cv. Glenn. Euphytica 216:71.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-020-02610-0
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Moghimi, A., C. Yang, and J.A. Anderson. 2020. Aerial hyperspectral imagery and deep neural networks for high-throughput yield phenotyping in wheat. Comp Elec Agric https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105299
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Sallam, A.H., E. Conley, D. Prakapenka, Y. Da, and J.A. Anderson 2020. Improving prediction accuracy using multi-allelic haplotype prediction and training population optimization in wheat. G3 10: doi: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.120.401165
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Sallam, A.H., F. Manan, P. Bajgain, T. Szinyei, E. Conley G. Brown-Guedira, M. Martin, G.J. Muehlbauer, and J.A. Anderson. 2020. Genetic architecture of agronomic and quality traits in a nested association mapping population of spring wheat. Plant Genome. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20051
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2020 Citation: Tyl, C., L. DeHaan, K. Frels, P. Bajgain, M.D. Marks, J.A. Anderson. Emerging crops with enhanced ecosystem services: Progress in breeding and processing for food use. 2020. Cereal Foods World. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1094/CFW-65-2-0016


Progress 10/01/18 to 09/30/19

Outputs
Target Audience:Wheat growers in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest Wheat Industry Wheat Breeders and Researchers Plant Breeders Postdoctoral Associates Graduate Students Undergraduate Students Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Two post-doctoral research associates and five graduate students were mentored during this reporting period. In addition, two full-time and one part-time technical staff assisted with our research activities. All of these individuals participated in bi-weekly lab meetings where they had the opportunity to learn of the research of others in our group and contribute suggestions to improve productivity, data quality, and improve analysis methodology. Postdocs and graduate students are encouraged to attend one or more conferences per year to present results of their research. During this reporting period, project members presented their research at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference, and American Society of Agronomy Annual meetings, International Wheat Congress, National Fusarium Head Blight Forum, and Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops Annual Conference. In addition, project personnel attended numerous on-campus seminars on topics ranging from agronomy to plant breeding. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Data from the yield and disease nurseries are summarized and published in Prairie Grains and the MAES's Minnesota Varietal Trials Results. Also, the publications listed earlier and other talks listed earlier and reproduced below. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The breeding program will function similar to the last year. We continue to adopt genomewide selection at the F5 generation.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? During the 2018/2019 crossing cycle, 250 crosses were made. The 2019 State Variety Trial, which contained 36 released varieties, 16 University of Minnesota experimental lines, 5 experimental lines from other programs, and 3 long term checks was grown at 15 locations. Another 187 advanced experimental lines were evaluated in advanced yield trials at 10-11 locations and 363 lines were evaluated in preliminary yield trials at 3 locations. A total of 6,978 yield plots were harvested in 2019. Fusarium-inoculated, misted nurseries were established at Crookston and St. Paul. An inoculated leaf and stem rust nursery was conducted at St. Paul. The disease nurseries involve collaboration with agronomists and pathologists at Crookston and with personnel from the Plant Pathology Department and the USDA-ARS. DNA sequence information was obtained from 2,533 pre-yield trial lines and their FHB resistance and dough mixing properties were predicted based on a training set of 499 lines. Data from the yield and disease nurseries are summarized and published in Prairie Grains and the MAES's 2019 Minnesota Field Crop Trials bulletin. MN-Washburn spring wheat was released January 2019. Tested as MN10201-4-A (MN97695-BYDV/Sabin), MN-Washburnhas shown stable yields over 6 years of statewide testing. It has good straw strength (3 on 1-9 scale), and overall good disease resistance. MN-Washburn has better straw strength than our recent releases Bolles (4), Shelly (5), and Lang-MN (5) and the high yielding SY Valda (5). Importantly, MN-Washburn contains the bdv2 gene forresistance to Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) - to our knowledge, it is the only variety in the region containingthis gene.The grain protein of MN-Washburn is lower than average, but its overall baking quality is acceptable and better than other lower protein varieties. Data is summarized in Table 1. MN14105-7 (Sabin/01S0377-6//Linkert) was increased at two MN locations in 2019. MN14105-7 has grain yield between Shelly and MN-Washburn but has higher grain protein than both and also better straw strength and bacterial leaf streak resistance compared with Shelly. In both 2017 and 2018 Uniform Regional Nurseries that are grown in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and one location each in Montana, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, MN14105-7 ranked no. 3 for yield out of >30 test entries (data not shown). Of the 3 entries with the highest grain yield in those nurseries, MN14105-7 had the highest protein. MN14105-7 has acceptable baking quality (5) and good disease resistance, among the best for bacterial leaf streak (3) and moderately resistant to scab (4). University of Minnesota developed spring wheat varieties accounted for an estimated 36.7% of Minnesota's 1.45 million spring wheat acres in 2019, including 'Linkert' which was the no. 1 variety for the 4th consecutive year. More than 750,000 acres of MN-developed spring wheat varieties also were grown in North Dakota in 2019, including 'Bolles' which was the 3rd leading variety in ND. Recent releases include 'Linkert' (2013), 'Bolles' (2015), 'Shelly' (2016), 'Lang-MN' (2017), and MN-Washburn (2019).

Publications

  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Adeyemo, E., P. Bajgain A. Sallam, and J. Anderson. 2019. Optimizing Training Population Size to Improve Prediction Accuracy of Disease Traits in Wheat. International Wheat Congress; July 2019; Saskatoon, Canada. https://2019iwc.ca/posters-program/
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Rauf, Y., C.X. Lan, R. P. Singh, M. N. Rouse, M. Imtiaz, and J. A. Anderson. 2018. Potentially unique sources and their genetic relationship of adult plant resistance to wheat rusts. Proceedings of 4th Canadian Wheat Symposium (p. 40). November 19-22, 2018, Winnipeg, Canada.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Frels, K., R. Chopra, K.M. Dorn, D.L. Wyse, M.D. Marks, and J.A. Anderson. 2019. Genetic diversity of field pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) reveals untapped variability and paths toward selection for domestication. at Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops Annual Conference, Sept. 2019, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Frels, K., R. Chopra, Z. Tandukar, K. Dorn, D. Wyse, M.D. Marks, and J.A. Anderson. 2019. Unlocking Pennycress Potential: Rapid Domestication through Breeding and Bioinformatics at the University of Minnesota at Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops Annual Conference, Sept. 2019, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Adeyemo, E., P. Bajgain, Rex Bernardo and J.A. Anderson. 2019. Harnessing Relationships to Improve Genomic Prediction Accuracy of Fusarium Head Blight Traits in Wheat. In: S. Canty, A. Hofstetter, B. Wiermer, and R. Dill-Macky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2019 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum (p. 83). East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Anderson, J.A. J. Wiersma, S. Reynolds, N. Stuart, H. Lindell, R. Dill-Macky, J. Kolmer, M. Rouse, Y. Jin., M. Smith, and L. Dykes. 2019. Hard Red Spring Wheat. In Minnesota Field Crop Trials, University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Altendorf, K., T. Isbell, D.L. Wyse, and J.A. Anderson. 2019. Significant variation for seed oil content, fatty acid profile, and seed weight in natural populations of field pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.). Industrial Crops and Products, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2018.11.054
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Anderson, J.A., J.J. Wiersma, S.K. Reynolds, G.L. Linkert, R. Caspers, J.A. Kolmer, Y. Jin, M.N. Rouse, R. Dill-Macky, M.J. Smith, L. Dykes, and J.-B. Ohm. 2019. Registration of 'Shelly' hard red spring wheat. J. Plant Registrations, doi:10.3198/jpr2018.07.0049crc
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Bajgain, P. , X. Zhang, M.K. Turner, R.D. Curland , B. Heim, R. Dill-Macky, C.A. Ishimaru, and J.A. Anderson. 2019. Characterization of genetic resistance to Fusarium head blight and bacterial leaf streak in Intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium). Agronomy, doi:10.3390/agronomy9080429.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Bajgain, P., X. Zhang, and J.A. Anderson. 2019. Genome-wide association study of yield component traits in Intermediate Wheatgrass and implications in genomic selection and breeding. G3 https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400073.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Frels, K., R. Chopra, K.M. Dorn, D.L. Wyse, M.D. Marks, and J.A. Anderson. 2019. Genetic Diversity of field pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) reveals untapped variability and paths toward selection for domestication. Agronomy 9:302 doi:10.3390/agronomy9060302.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Kuzay, S.,�Y. Xu, J. Zhang, A. Katz, S. Pearce, Z. Su, M. Fraser, J.A. Anderson, G. Brown-Guedira, N. DeWitt, A.P. Haugrud, J.D. Faris, E. Akhunov, G. Bai, and J.Dubcovsky. 2019. Identification of a candidate gene for a QTL for spikelet number per spike on wheat chromosome arm 7AL by high-resolution genetic mapping. Theor. Appl. Genet. doi.org/10.1007/s0012 2-019-03382 -5.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Larson, S., L. DeHaan, J. Poland, X. Zhang, K. Dorn, T. Kantarski, J. Anderson, J. Schmutz, J. Grimwood, J. Jenkins, S. Shu, J. Crain, M. Robbins and K. Jensen. 2019. Genome mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) controlling domestication traits of intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium). Theor. Appl. Genet. doi:10.1007/s00122-019-03357-6.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Liu, W, J. Kolmer, S. Rynearson, X. Chen, L. Gao, J.A. Anderson, M.K. Turner, and M. Pumphrey. 2019. Identifying Loci Conferring Resistance to Leaf and Stripe Rusts in a Spring Wheat Population (Triticum aestivum L.) via Genome-wide Association Mapping. Phytopathol. doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-04-19-0143-R
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Singh, L., J.A. Anderson, J. Chen, B.S. Gill, V.K. Tiwari, and N. Rawat. 2019. Development and Validation of a Perfect KASP Marker for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance Gene Fhb1 in Wheat. The Plant Pathology Journal, 35:200-207, https://doi.org/10.5423/PPJ.OA.01.2019.0018
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Tamang, B.G., R. Schoppach, D. Monnens, B.J. Steffenson, J.A. Anderson, and W. Sadok. 2019. Variability in temperature-independent transpiration responses to evaporative demand correlate with nighttime water use and its circadian control across diverse wheat populations. Planta 250:115127 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-019-03151-0.


Progress 10/01/17 to 09/30/18

Outputs
Target Audience:Wheat growers in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest Wheat Industry Wheat Breeders and Researchers Plant Breeders Postdoctoral Associates Graduate Students Undergraduate Students Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Two post-doctoral research associates and five graduate students were mentored during this reporting period. In addition, two full-time and one part-time technical staff assisted with our research activities. All of these individuals participated in bi-weekly lab meetings where they had the opportunity to learn of the research of others in our group and contribute suggestions to improve productivity, data quality, and improve analysis methodology. Postdocs and graduate students are encouraged to attend one or more conferences per year to present results of their research. During this reporting period, project members presented their research at the American Society of Agronomy annual meetings, National Fusarium head blight forum, and Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Workshop. In addition, project personnel attended numerous on-campus seminars on topics ranging from agronomy to plant breeding. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Data from the yield and disease nurseries are summarized and published in Prairie Grains and the MAES's Minnesota Varietal Trials Results. Also, the publications listed earlier and presentations below. Invited talks on spring wheat breeding and varieties: Small Grains Update Meetings, 9 locations in northwest Minnesota (1/15/18-1/19/18) Crookston summer field day (7/18/18) What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The breeding program will function similar to the last year. We continue to adopt genomewide selection at the F5 generation.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? During the 2017/2018 crossing cycle, 261 crosses were made. The 2018 State Variety Trial, which contained 38 released varieties, 16 University of Minnesota experimental lines, 4 experimental lines from other programs, and 3 long term checks was grown at a total of 15 locations. During the 2018 growing season, another 183 advanced experimental lines were evaluated in advanced yield trials at 10-11 locations. An additional 353 lines were evaluated in preliminary yield trials at 2 locations. A total of 6,307 yield plots were harvested in 2018. Fusarium-inoculated, misted nurseries were established at Crookston and St. Paul. An inoculated leaf and stem rust nursery was conducted at St. Paul. The disease nurseries involve collaboration with agronomists and pathologists at Crookston and with personnel from the Plant Pathology Department and the USDA-ARS. Data from the yield and disease nurseries are summarized and published in Prairie Grains and the MAES's 2018 Minnesota Field Crop Trials bulletin. MN11394-6(MN00209-3-1/MN05209) was released as germplasm in 2018. MN11394-6 has very good resistance to bacterial leaf streak and scab, has above average protein and competitive grain yields. MN11394-6 has weak straw (6 on 1-9 scale) and despite its protein content has relatively poor end-use quality, mostly due to a weak mixing profile. According to DNA sequence information, MN11394-6 contains the 2NS/2AS translocation from Triticum ventricosum. This translocation contains resistance genes Sr38, Lr37, and Yr17, and also apparently provides resistance to wheat blast, an emerging global disease. University of Minnesota developed varieties accounted for an estimated 52% of Minnesota's 1.6 million spring wheat acres in 2018, the highest proportion in more than three decades. Recent releases include 'Linkert' (2013), 'Bolles' (2015), 'Shelly' (2016) and 'Lang-MN' (2017). Linkert was the no. 1 variety in Minnesota in 2018, sown on 27.3% of the state's wheat acres. Bolles (10.4%) was the 2nd most popular, Shelly 5th (8.2%), and Lang-MN 6th (4.4%). More than 1 million acres of MN-developed spring wheat varieties also were grown in North Dakota in 2018.

Publications

  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Adeyemo, E., P. Bajgain, and J.A. Anderson. 2018. Optimizing Training Population Size to Improve Prediction Accuracy of Fusarium Head Blight Traits in Wheat. In: S. Canty, A. Hofstetter, B. Wiermer, and R. Dill-Macky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2018 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum (p. 99). East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Altendorf, K., L.R. DeHaan, X. Zhang, and J.A. Anderson. 2018. Dissecting the Genetic Control of Seed Shattering in Intermediate Wheatgrass. In Agronomy abstracts. ASA, Baltimore, MD, November 4-7, 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Altendorf, K., L.R. DeHaan, X. Zhang, and J.A. Anderson. 2018. Genetic Characterization of an Intermediate Wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium) Nested Association Mapping (NAM) Population. In Agronomy abstracts. ASA, Baltimore, MD, November 4-7, 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Altendorf, K., L.R. DeHaan, X. Zhang, and J.A. Anderson. 2018. Yield Component Traits of the New Perennial Grain Crop: Intermediate Wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium). In Agronomy abstracts. ASA, Baltimore, MD, November 4-7, 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Qiu, R., C. Yang, M. Ali, J. Anderson, B. Steffenson, P. Marchetto. 2018. Detection of Fusarium head blight in small grains using hyperspectral imaging. In: S. Canty, A. Hofstetter, B. Wiermer, and R. Dill-Macky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2018 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum (p. 32). East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Rauf, Y., C. X. Lan, P. Bajgain, R. P. Singh, M. N. Rouse, M. Imtiaz, J. A. Anderson. 2018. Preliminary investigations on genetic relationship of adult plant resistance to wheat rusts in COPIO. Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) workshop. 14-17 April 2018, Marrakesh Morocco.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Singh, L. J. Anderson, B.S. Gill, and N. Rawat. 2018. Expression of phytohormone related wheat defense genes in PFT-mediated resistance against Fusarium graminearum. In: S. Canty, A. Hofstetter, B. Wiermer, and R. Dill-Macky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2018 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum (p. 74). East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Tamang, B.G, Schoppach, R., Steffenson, B.J., Anderson, J.A. & Sadok, W. 2018. Unconscious selection and plant hydraulics: did breeders select against water-saving traits in well- watered Minnesota and for them in drought-prone Australia? In Agronomy abstracts. ASA, Baltimore, MD, November 4-7, 2018.
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Anderson, J.A. J. Wiersma, S. Reynolds, N. Stuart, H. Lindell, R. Dill-Macky, J. Kolmer, M. Rouse, Y. Jin., M. Smith, and L. Dykes. 2018. Hard Red Spring Wheat. In Minnesota Field Crop Trials, University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Anderson, J.A., J.J. Wiersma, G.L. Linkert, S. Reynolds, J.A. Kolmer, Y. Jin, M. Rouse, R. Dill-Macky, G.A. Hareland, and J.-B. Ohm. 2018. Registration of 'Linkert' spring wheat with good straw strength and adult plant resistance to the Ug99 family of stem rust races. J. Plant Registrations. doi:10.3198/jpr2017.07.0046crc.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Anderson, J.A., J.J. Wiersma, G.L. Linkert, S. Reynolds, J.A. Kolmer, Y. Jin, M. Rouse, R. Dill-Macky, G.A. Hareland, and J.-B. Ohm. 2018. Registration of 'Bolles' hard red spring wheat with high grain protein concentration and superior baking quality. J. Plant Registrations. doi:10.3198/jpr2017.08.0050crc.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Chopra, R. E.B. Johnson, E. Daniels, M. McGinn, K.M. Dorn, M. Esfahanian, N. Folstad, K. Amundson, K. Altendorf, K. Betts, K. Frels, J.A. Anderson, D.L. Wyse, J.C. Sedbrook, and M.D. Marks. 2018. Translational genomics using Arabidopsis research enables characterization of pennycress genes through forward and reverse genetics. Plant Journal 96:10931105, doi: 10.1111/tpj.14147
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Chopra, R., N. Folstad, J. Lyons, T. Ulmasov, C. Gallaher, L. Sullivan, A. McGovern, R. Mitacek, K. Frels, K. Altendorf, A. Killam, B. Ismail, J.A. Anderson, D.L. Wyse, and M.D. Marks. 2019. The adaptable use of Brassica NIRS calibration equations to identify pennycress variants to facilitate the rapid domestication of a new winter oilseed crop. Industrial Crops and Products, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2018.10.079
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Dong, H. R. Wang, Y. Yuan, J. Anderson, M.O. Pumphrey, Z. Zhang, and J. Chen. 2018. Evaluation of the potential for genomic selection to improve spring wheat resistance to Fusarium head blight in the Pacific Northwest. Frontiers in Plant Science 9:911. doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.00911
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Gao, L., E.M. Babiker, I.C. Nava, J. Nirmala, Z. Bedo, L. Lang, S. Chao, S. Gale, Y. Jin, J.A. Anderson, U. Bansal, R.F. Park, M.N. Rouse, J.M. Bonman, and H. Bariana. 2018. Temperature-sensitive wheat stem rust resistance gene Sr15 is effective against Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici race TTKSK. Plant Pathol. doi:10.1111/ppa.12928.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Hayes R., S. Wang, M. Newell, K. Turner, J. Larsen, L. Gazza, J.A. Anderson, L. Bell, D. Cattani, K. Frels, E. Galassi, A. Morgounov, C. Revell, D. Thapa, E. Sacks, M. Sameri, L. Wade, A. Westerbergh, V. Shamanin, A. Amanov, and G. Li. 2018. The performance of early-generation perennial winter cereals at 21 sites across four continents. Sustainability 10:1124 doi.org/10.3390/su10041124.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Tyl, C. A. Marti, J. Hayek, J.A. Anderson, and BP. Ismail. 2018. Effect of growing location and variety on nutritional and functional properties of proso millet (Panicum miliaceum) grown as a double crop. Cereal Chem. DOI: 10.1002/cche.10028


Progress 10/01/16 to 09/30/17

Outputs
Target Audience:Wheat growers in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest Wheat Industry Wheat Breeders and Researchers Plant Breeders Postdoctoral Associates Graduate Students Undergraduate Students Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Two post-doctoral research associates and six graduate students were mentored during this reporting period. In addition, two full-time and two part-time technical staff assisted with our research activities. All of these individuals participated in bi-weekly lab meetings where they had the opportunity to learn of the research of others in our group and contribute suggestions to improve productivity, data quality, and improve analysis methodology. Postdocs and graduate students are encouraged to attend one or more conferences per year to present results of their research. During this reporting period, project members presented their research at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference, and American Society of Agronomy Annual meetings. In addition, project personnel attended numerous on-campus seminars on topics ranging from agronomy to plant breeding. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Data from the yield and disease nurseries are summarized and published in Prairie Grains and the MAES's Minnesota Varietal Trials Results. Also, the publications listed earlier and other talks listed earlier and reproduced below. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The breeding program will function similar to the last year. We continue to adopt genomewide selection at the F5 generation.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? During the 2016/2017 crossing cycle, 253 crosses were made. The State Variety Trial, which contained 42 released varieties, 11 University of Minnesota experimental lines, and 2 experimental lines from other programs was grown at a total of 15 locations in 2017. During the 2017 growing season, another 179 advanced experimental lines were evaluated in advanced yield trials at 10-11 locations. An additional 514 lines were evaluated in preliminary yield trials at 2 locations. A total of 7,164 yield plots were harvested in 2017. Fusarium-inoculated, misted nurseries were established at Crookston and St. Paul. An inoculated leaf and stem rust nursery was conducted at St. Paul. The disease nurseries involve collaboration with agronomists and pathologists at Crookston and with personnel from the Plant Pathology Department and the USDA-ARS. Data from the yield and disease nurseries are summarized and published in Prairie Grains and the MAES's 2017 Minnesota Field Crop Trials bulletin MN10261-1 (Glenn/Sabin) was released as 'Lang-MN' in 2017. Lang-MN is a mid-maturity hard red spring wheat that has relatively high grain yield and protein and has good overall disease resistance, including Fusarium head blight. Straw strength is average (5 on 1-9 scale). Lang-MN is resistant to preharvest sprouting and has exhibited good end-use quality characteristics. Another advanced experimental line that is a candidate for release in 2019 in MN10201-4-A. Data summaries of MN10201-4-A, recent U of MN releases, and popular varieties are shown in Table 1. Linkert was the no. 1 variety in Minnesota in 2017, sown on 28.2% of the state's wheat acres. Bolles was the 2nd most popular variety at 14.4%, followed by WB-Mayville (13.5%), SY Valda (6.6%) and Shelly (5.6%). University of Minnesota developed varieties accounted for an estimated 50.6% of wheat acres in 2017 which is the highest proportion in more than 3 decades. Recent releases include 'Linkert' (2013), 'Bolles' (2015), 'Shelly' (2016) and 'Lang-MN' (2017).

Publications

  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Altendorf, K., D.L. Wyse, K. Betts, D. Marks,�and J,A. Anderson. 2016. Characterization of Field Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) Germplasm. In Agronomy abstracts. ASA, Phoenix, AZ.
  • Type: Book Chapters Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Anderson, J.A. 2017. Advances in disease-resistant wheat varieties. In Langridge, P. (ed.), Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1: Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK (ISBN: 978 1 78676 016 6; www.bdspublishing.com)
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Anderson, J.A. J. Wiersma, R. Dill-Macky, J. Kolmer, M. Rouse, and Y. Jin., M. Smith, and L. Dykes. 2017. Hard Red Spring Wheat. In Minnesota Field Crop Trials, University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Anderson, J.A., J.J. Wiersma, G.L. Linkert, S. Reynolds, J.A. Kolmer, Y. Jin, M. Rouse, R. Dill-Macky, G.A. Hareland, and J.-B. Ohm. 2017. Registration of Norden hard red spring wheat. Crop Sci. doi:10.3198/jpr2017.07.0045crc
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Aoun, M. M. Breiland, M.K. Turner, A. Loladze, S. Chao, S.S. Xu, K. Ammar, J.A. Anderson, J.A. Kolmer, and M. Acevedo. 2016. Genome-wide association mapping of leaf rust response in a durum wheat worldwide germplasm collection. Plant Genome 9 doi: 10.3835/plantgenome2016.01.000
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Bajgain, P., and J.A. Anderson. 2017. Repeatability of Genotyping By Sequencing SNP Markers in Wheat: An Investigation. Proceedings of the XXV International�Plant�&�Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Bajgain, P., and J.A. Anderson. 2017. Repeatability of genotyping by sequencing SNP markers in wheat. In: Buerstmayr H, Lang-Mladek C, Steiner B, Michel S, Buerstmayr M, Lemmens M, Vollmann J, Grausgruber H (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Wheat Genetics Symposium. Tulln, Austria; April 23-28, 2017; BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria; ISBN: 978-3-900932-48-0.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Conley, E.J., and J.A. Anderson. 2016. Association mapping in a panel of Minnesota spring wheat breeding lines reveals QTL maintained over decades of phenotypic selection. In: S. Canty, A. Clark, K. Wolfe and D. Van Sanford (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum (p. 77). East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Conley, E.J., and J.A. Anderson. 2017. Combining QTL-based markers and genomewide prediction with phenotypic screening for efficient selection of Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat. In: Buerstmayr H, Lang-Mladek C, Steiner B, Michel S, Buerstmayr M, Lemmens M, Vollmann J, Grausgruber H (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Wheat Genetics Symposium. Tulln, Austria; April 23-28, 2017; BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria; ISBN: 978-3-900932-48-0.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Frels, K., K. Altendorf, D. Marks, D.L. Wyse,�and JA. Anderson. 2016. Developing a Genome Informed Breeding Program for Field Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.). In Agronomy abstracts. ASA, Phoenix, AZ.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Frels, K., R. Chopra, K. Altendorf, K.M. Dorn, D. Marks, and J.A. Anderson. 2017. Estimating Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Founder Lines in a Pennycress Breeding Program. In Agronomy abstracts. ASA, Tampa, FL.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Gao, L., M.N. Rouse, P.D. Mihalyov, P. Bulli, M.O. Pumphrey, and J.A. Anderson. 2017. Genetic characterization of stem rust resistance in a global spring wheat germplasm collection. Crop Sci. 57:2575-2589. doi: 10.2135/cropsci2017.03.0159.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Malegori, C., S. Grassi, J.-B. Ohm, J. Anderson, and A. Marti. 2018. GlutoPeak profile analysis for wheat classification: skipping the refinement process. J. Cereal Sci. 79:73-79. doi.org/10.1016/j.jcs.2017.09.005
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Pumphrey, M., P. Bulli, K. Muleta, W. Liu, P. Mihalyov, Y. Naruoka, M. Lewien, M. Rouse, X. Chen, J. Kolmer, J. Dubcovsky, S. Chao, L. Gao, J.A. Anderson�and K. Turner. 2016. Travels into Several Rusty Regions of the Wheat Genome. In Agronomy abstracts. ASA, Phoenix, AZ.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Rawat, N. B.S. Gill, and J.A. Anderson. 2016. Overview on Fhb1. Proceedings of the 8th Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Thurston, Y., J.T. Eckard, K.D. Glover, J.A. Anderson, M. Mergoum, S. Ali, and J.L. Gonzalez-Hernandez. 2016. Development of Fusarium head blight resistance germplasm in highly adapted spring wheat background. In: S. Canty, A. Clark, K. Wolfe and D. Van Sanford (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum (p. 99). East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Wang, R. J. Chen, J.A. Anderson, J. Zhang, W. Zhao, J. Wheeler, N. Klassen, D.R. See, and Y. Dong. 2017. Genome-wide association mapping of fusarium head blight resistance in spring wheat lines developed in the Pacific Northwest and CIMMYT. Phytopathol. 107:1486-1495. doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-02-17-0073-R.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Wang, R., J. Chen, J. Zhang, W. Zhao, J. Wheeler, N. Klassen, J.A. Anderson, D.R. See, and Y. Dong. 2016. Genome-wide association mapping of Fusarium head blight resistance in spring wheat lines grown in Pacific Northwest and CIMMYT. In: S. Canty, A. Clark, K. Wolfe and D. Van Sanford (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum (p. 103). East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Wang, R., J. Chen, J. Zhang, W. Zhao, J. Wheeler, N. Klassen, J.A. Anderson, D.R. See�and Y. Dong. 2016. Genome-Wide Association Mapping of Resistance QTL to Fusarium Head Blight in Spring Wheat Lines Grown in Pacific Northwest and CIMMYT. In Agronomy abstracts. ASA, Phoenix, AZ.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Zhang, X. S. Larson, L. Gao, S.L. Teh, L. DeHaan, M. Fraser, A. Sallam, T. Kantarski, K. Frels, J. Poland, D. Wyse, J. Anderson. 2017. Uncovering the genetic architecture of seed weight and size in intermediate wheatgrass through linkage and association mapping.�The Plant Genome. doi: 10.3835/plantgenome2017.03.0022
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Zhang, X. T.R. Kantarski, S. Larson, K.M. Dorn, J. Schmutz, L. DeHaan, J. Poland, D.L. Wyse and J.A. Anderson. 2017. Genome Mapping, Tagging & Characterization: Wheat, Barley, Oat, and related Genomic Tools for Kernza�, Intermediate Wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium) Improvement  Breeders Toolbox for Improving a New Perennial Grain Crop. Proceedings of the XXV International�Plant�&�Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Zhang, X., L.R. DeHaan, J.A. Anderson, G.C. Yencho. 2017. Application of Genomics-Assisted Breeding in New and Specialty Crops, Kernza and Sweetpotato. In Agronomy abstracts. ASA, Tampa, FL.


Progress 07/01/16 to 09/30/16

Outputs
Target Audience:Wheat growers in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest Wheat Industry Wheat Breeders and Researchers Plant Breeders Postdoctoral Associates Graduate Students Undergraduate Students Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Two post-doctoral research associates and five graduate students were mentored during this reporting period. In addition, two full-time and two part-time technical staff assisted with our research activities. All of these individuals participated in bi-weekly lab meetings where they had the opportunity to learn of the research of others in our group and contribute suggestions to improve productivity, data quality, and improve analysis methodology. Postdocs and graduate students are encouraged to attend one or more conferences per year to present results of their research. During this reporting period, project members presented their research at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference, and American Society of Agronomy Annual meetings. In addition, project personnel attended numerous on-campus seminars on topics ranging from agronomy to plant breeding. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Data from the yield and disease nurseries are summarized and published in Prairie Grains and the MAES's Minnesota Varietal Trials Results. Also, the publications listed earlier and other talks listed earlier and reproduced below. Invited talkon spring wheat breeding and varieties Crookston field day (7/20/16), approx. 150 participants What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Recent releases include 'Rollag' (2011), co-release of 'Prosper' (2011), 'Norden' (2012), 'Linkert' (2013), 'Bolles' (2015), and 'Shelly' (2016). Linkert was the no. 1 variety in Minnesota in 2016, sown on 27.8% of the state's wheat acres (Minnesota Wheat Growers survey). WB?Mayville was the 2nd most popular variety at 13.1%, followed by Prosper (10.2%), Bolles (8.8%) and Faller (6.0%). Publicly developed varieties accounted for an estimated 60% of wheat acres in 2016 and 67% of the public share was from varieties developed primarily at the University of Minnesota.

Publications

  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Altendorf, K., D.L. Wyse, K. Betts, D. Marks, and J,A. Anderson. 2016. Characterization of Field Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) Germplasm. In Agronomy abstracts. ASA, Phoenix, AZ.
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Anderson, J.A. J. Wiersma, R. Dill-Macky, J. Kolmer, M. Rouse, and Y. Jin., M. Smith, and L. Dykes. 2016. Hard Red Spring Wheat. In Minnesota Field Crop Trials, University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Conley, E.J., and J.A. Anderson. 2016. Association mapping in a panel of Minnesota spring wheat breeding lines reveals QTL maintained over decades of phenotypic selection. In: S. Canty, A. Clark, K. Wolfe and D. Van Sanford (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum (p. 77). East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: DeHaan, L.R., D.L. Van Tassel, J.A. Anderson, S.R. Asselin, R. Barnes, G.J. Baute, D.J. Cattani, S.W. Culman, K.M. Dorn, B.S. Hulke, M. Kantar, S. Larson, M.D. Marks, A.J. Miller, J. Poland, D.A. Ravetta, E. Rude, M.R. Ryan, D. Wyse, and X. Zhang. 2016. A pipeline strategy for grain crop domestication. Crop Sci. 56:917-930.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Gao, L., M.K. Turner, S. Chao, J. Kolmer, and J.A. Anderson. 2016. Genome Wide Association Study of Seedling and Adult Plant Leaf Rust Resistance in Elite Spring Wheat Breeding Lines. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0148671. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0148671.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Gao, L., M.K. Turner, S. Chao, J. Kolmer, and J.A. Anderson. 2016. Genome Wide Association Study of Seedling and Adult Plant Leaf Rust Resistance in Elite Spring Wheat Breeding Lines. In: Proceedings of the XXII International Plant & Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Kantar, M.B., C.E. Tyl, K.M. Dorn, X. Zhang, J.M. Jungers, J.M. Kaser, R.R. Schendel, J.O. Eckberg, B.C. Runck, M. Bunzel, N.R. Jordan, R.M. Stupar, M.D. Marks, J.A. Anderson, G.A. Johnson, C.C. Sheaffer, T.C. Schoenfuss, B. Ismail, G.E. Heimpel, and D.L. Wyse. 2016. Perennial grain and oilseed crops. Annual Review of Plant Biology. 67:703-729.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Kantarski, T., S. Larson, X. Zhang, L. DeHaan, J. Borevitz, J. Anderson, J. Poland. 2016. Development of the first consensus genetic map of intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium) using genotyping-by-sequencing. Theor. Appl. Genet. doi:10.1007/s00122-016-2799-7.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Rawat, N. B.S. Gill, and J.A. Anderson. 2016. Overview on Fhb1. Proceedings of the 8th Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Rawat, N., M.O. Pumphrey, S. Liu, X. Zhang, V.K. Tiwari, K. Ando, H.N. Trick, W.W. Bockus, E. Akhunov, J.A. Anderson, and B.S. Gill. 2016. Wheat Fhb1 encodes a chimeric lectin with agglutinin domains and a pore-forming toxin-like domain conferring resistance to Fusarium head blight. Nature Genetics. doi:10.1038/ng.3706
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Thurston, Y., J.T. Eckard, K.D. Glver, J.A. Anderson, M. Mergoum, S. Ali, and J.L. Gonzalex-Hernandez. 2016. Dvelopment of Fusarium head blight resistance germplasm in highly adapted spring wheat background. In: S. Canty, A. Clark, K. Wolfe and D. Van Sanford (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum (p. 99). East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Turner, M.K, Y. Jin, M.N. Rouse, and J.A. Anderson. 2016. Stem Rust Resistance in Jagger Winter Wheat. Crop Sci. 56:17.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Turner, M.K., J.A. Kolmer, M.O. Pumphrey, P. Bulli, S. Chao, and J.A. Anderson. 2016. Association mapping of leaf rust resistance loci in a spring wheat core collection. Theor Appl Genet. doi:10.1007/s00122-016-2815-y.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Wang, R., J. Chen, J. Zhang, W. Zhao, J. Wheeler, N. Klassen, J.A. Anderson, D.R. See, and Y. Dong. 2016. Genome-wide association mapping of Fusarium head blight resistance in spring wheat lines grown in Pacific Northwest and CIMMYT. In: S. Canty, A. Clark, K. Wolfe and D. Van Sanford (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum (p. 103). East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Zhang, X., M.N. Rouse, I.C. Nava, Y. Jin, and JA. Anderson. 2016. Development and verification of wheat germplasm containing both Sr2 and Fhb1. Mol. Breeding. 36:85.