Writer: Pam Dillard (806) 677-5600,p-dillard@tamu.edu
Contact: Mark Lazar (806) 677-5600,m-lazar@tamu.edu
DALLAS — The annual Texas Small Grains Workers Workshop is slated Thursday (Aug. 29) at the Texas A&M University Research and Extension Center here. The annual forum enables researchers, breeders, and industry representatives to gather to discuss new breeding lines, current research and future directions in crop development and production.
“Our workshops have nearly a quarter century of history,” said Mark Lazar, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station wheat breeder from Amarillo. “What started as informal sessions among scientists and breeders aiming to stay abreast of statewide research has evolved into what we are today.”
Registration will begin at 8 a.m. Tim Davis, research director with the Experiment Station at the Dallas Center, will welcome participants.
The program will cover topics that include mapping of greenbug resistance in wheat, the work of Texas A&M’s wheat molecular biology laboratory, prospects for increasing wheat yield in the Texas Panhandle, wheat quality analysis and wheat marketing.
Also on the agenda are presentations on Texas Cooperative Extension’s small grains programs, the status of karnal bunt in Texas and the southern Great Plains, USDA’s areawide project for controlling Russian wheat aphid and greenbug in wheat, regulation of cereal grain development and wheat germplasm and variety development.
Representatives of the Texas Seed Trade Association and the Texas Wheat Producers Board also will make presentations.
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