planting winter wheat plots with

a plot sized drill to study the stand

and yield variation caused by

different seed treatments

860 cultivars of wheat screened

for resistance to 3 different crown rot organisms

Cereal cyst nematode

Fusarium crown rot

Root-lesion nematode

Rhizoctonia root rot

Take-all

Hessian fly

Seed Treatments

Collecting Heterodera avenae

cysts from infested soil

by flotation and then sieving

planting spring wheat root-lesion nematode plots designed to assess resistance and damage potential

Pythium is one of many pathogens controllable by management practices