Wheat Stripe Rust has become a big problem to growers in the Sacramento and San Joaquin vallies. The major difference this year is that the commonly used variety "Express" is only partially resistant to the new rust strains that have developed. The variety "Bonus" is very suseptible while the variety "Summit" is still resistant. The UC State wide variety testing program is very important in determining variety suseptibility to the new strains. We will have a more difinitive answer to this problem after havest in June. The wheat stripe rust Photo Album shows symptoms and how different varieties react to the new strains of this disease. To see what the varieties look like in the Colusa Variety trial, the wheat variety trial Photo Album shows the differences in vaieties under field stripe rust conditions.
Wheat Variety Trials in Colusa County 2003
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