creators_name: Pridham, Jackie
creators_name: Entz, Martin
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2007-03-11
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:34:49
metadata_visibility: show
title: Mixtures of modern and historical wheat cultivars under organic management in western Canada  

ispublished: pub
subjects: 2cropcomb
full_text_status: public
keywords: diversity, weeds, leaf diseases
abstract: Two historic (Red Fife and Marquis) and two modern (5602HR; AC Barrie) wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars were assessed to determine if cultivar mixtures provided a benefit to grain yield and disease and weed suppression in Manitoba over 3 site-years.  5602HR was the highest yielding sole cultivar while Marquis and AC Barrie were the lowest yielding sole cultivars. Red Fife yielded similar to 5602HR in several cases. Orthogonal contrasts across all site-years showed that 3 and 4 cultivar mixtures yielded similar (P>0.05) to 5602HR, the highest yielding monocrop.
date: 2007
date_type: published
refereed: never
citation: Pridham, Jackie and Entz, Martin (2007) Mixtures of modern and historical wheat cultivars under organic management in western Canada. 3rd QLIF Congress: Improving Sustainability in Organic and Low Input Food Production Systems, University of Hohenheim, Germany, March 20-23, 2007.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/9890/1/Pridham-Entz-2007-WheatCultivars.pdf