Chloride's Role in Maximizing Wheat Variety Performance
To understand the interactions of major wheat varieties with chloride fertilization, and evaluate effects of chloride fertilization on wheat plant pathology, plant maturity and thousand kernel weight. Also to increase awareness of dealers and growers of the affects of appropriate chloride fertilization on wheat yield and profitability.
IPNI-1995-CAN-MB8
01 Mar 1998
1997 Annual Interpretive Summary
Chlorides Role in Maximizing Wheat Variety Performance, 1997
Response of wheat to Cl fertilization has been well documented, but not all varieties, or cultivars, respond equally and not all responsive varieties are known. This project is part of a large regional study that is evaluating how different varieties of spring and winter wheat react to applied Cl. Chloride was applied to 15 cultivars of spring wheat on two different textured soils. After two years of evaluation, Cl fertilization has increased yields and dry matter of several cultivars, but the response pattern for cultivars has not been consistent from year to year, or location to location. Because of this inconsistency, predicting responsive varieties will be difficult. MB-08