Those are common cultivars in Northeast Texas and are considered to be moderately resistant to fungal diseases according to the agency’s wheat trials over the last several years. Table 1 also summarizes the responses of these four cultivars to some common diseases and pests according to the agronomic assessments made by the companies that produce them. Specific environmental conditions, plant development stages, other disease and pest pressures,

and disease resistance over time, among others, www.selleckchem.com/products/epacadostat-incb024360.html influence each cultivar’s disease and pest response. Wheat field trials for the four cultivars were conducted in 2011 and 2012 in three locations in Northeast Texas: a location in Royse City (32°58′27″N, 96°19′58″W), a location in Howe (33°30′18″N, 96°36′51″W), and a location in Leonard (33°22′59″N, 96°14′43″W). The corresponding elevations at each of these locations are 167 m, 256 m, and 219 m. The soil types in all three locations are either Houston Black Clay (calcareous clays and marls) or Leson Clay (alkaline shale and clays). Both soil types are very deep, moderately well drained, and very Y-27632 cost slowly permeable soils. Those are typical soils characteristics where wheat is grown in Northeast Texas. Each wheat trial was replicated six times in a randomized complete block design. Each plot was 1.22 m wide and 6.06 m

long and 15.24 cm row spacing. The treated plots were sprayed with the foliar fungicide TebuStar® 3.6L at 280 g/ha (diluted in 93 L of water per hectare) when the plants were approximately at Feekes Growth stage 10 (Large, 1954). The CO2 powered backpack sprayer was equipped with a three-nozzle boom with 8002VS stainless steel tips 48 cm apart and flat-fan nozzles at 2.11 kg/cm2. Each experimental unit was evaluated one month after the foliar fungicide was applied. Ten plants per plot (subsamples) were randomly selected. Flag leaves on each

Methane monooxygenase plant were visually assessed for the presence of Septoria, barley yellow dwarf (BYD), leaf rust, and strip rust. The harvest was done with a research Kincaid combine (Kincaid Manufacturing, Haven, Kansas). After weighing the grain and correcting to 13% moisture, grain yield in bushels per acre was recorded. Table 2 summarizes the three locations where the trials were conducted, their soil types, the weather conditions, and the planting, spraying, and harvesting dates. Wheat prices per bushel were obtained from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension–Extension Agricultural Economics, 2011 and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension–Extension Agricultural Economics, 2012. The average wheat price regardless of variety and location over the two years analyzed was $0.25/kg. The tebuconazole cost ($12.36/ha) and its application cost ($4.94/ha) were obtained from fungicide companies in Northeast Texas.