Glee is a hard red spring wheat developed by the Agricultural Research Center of Washington State University. Glee was named in honor of Virginia Gale Lee, an inspiring graduate student in the WSU Spring Wheat Breeding program who died from a rare, aggressive form of cancer in 2010.

Glee provides a combination of high yield potential and excellent disease resistance in dryland spring wheat production areas of the inland Pacific Northwest. Glee’s five-year yield average is significantly higher than all comparison hard red spring varieties in WSU Variety Testing Trials from 12 to >20 inches of annual precipitation. Year after year, Glee performs.

HARD RED SPRING WHEAT

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AGRONOMICSYield Potential ................................................... ExcellentProtein ...............................................................Average Test Weight .................................................... Very GoodMaturity ................................................... Medium–EarlyHeight ............................................................... MediumQuality .....................................................Most Desirable

DISEASE RESISTANCEStripe Rust ...............................Excellent Adult Resistance1

Hessian Fly ....................................................... Resistant1 Early season application of fungicides should be considered to limit seedling infection.

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY WHEAT & BARLEY

AVAILABILITY: Foundation seed of Glee is maintained by the Washington State Crop Improvement Association. For variety inquiries contact Washington Genetics, http://www.washgenetics.com, or (509) 659-4020 U.S. Plant Variety Protection status for this cultivar is approved.

Support for the development of this variety was provided by Washington State University, the USDA, and the Washington Grain Commission. For more information please visit smallgrains.wsu.edu.

>20" Precip (Fairfield, Farmington, Palouse, Pullman) 2015–2016, 6 loc/years16"–20" (Dayton,Mayview, Plaza, St. John, Walla Walla) 2015–2016, 8 loc/years *Hessian fly ratings from University of Idaho. R= Resistant, S=Susceptible

Two-Year Variety Testing Data from 2015–2016 >20" 16"–20" YIELD YIELD TEST WT PROTEIN HESSIANVARIETY (BU/A) (BU/A) (LBS/BU) (%) FLY*Glee 74 58 60.6 12.8 RAlum 74 57 60.6 13.1 RLCS Iron 74 57 59.2 12.7 SSY Selway 71 57 59.4 13.3 RSY Coho 71 56 57.3 13.5 SWB9518 72 55 60.1 14.0 SChet 72 54 61.6 13.8 RBullseye 67 56 61.4 12.8 —WB9229 68 54 60.2 13.8 SWB9668 68 53 61.0 14.9 RSY Steelhead 68 52 61.6 13.8 SLCS Buck Pronto 66 51 59.6 14.1 SKelse 64 52 59.6 13.9 RHollis 65 49 59.8 13.8 RWB9879CLP 61 52 59.9 13.6 SSY605 CL 59 50 61.3 13.8 S

C.V. % 6 6 1 4LSD (0.05) 2 2 0.2 0.2

Dryland wheat areas >12" precipitation,except low pH areas.

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