Assessing freeze damage in KS wheat
date:Apr 28, 2013
oaked in appearance as it emerges. Its possible for some of the spikelets to be alive and a healthy dark green while other spikelets on the same head are damaged. If a spikelet flowers normally and the kernels on that spikelet develop normally, then the head is at least partially viable and can produce grain.

In southwest Kansas, irrigated wheat is probably going to have the most severe freeze injury, and some stands could be mostly or entirely lost, Shroyer said. Some of the dryland wheat in s
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