Registration of ‘ NE 01481 ’ Hard Red Winter Wheat

use of resistant cultivars and late-planted susceptible cultivars, which have reduced infection because of the low temperature at planting (Myers et al., 1993). However, with recent warm fall weather, even late-planted wheat has suffered considerable losses in grain yield due to the disease. ‘NE01481’ (Reg. No. CV-1061, PI 659689) hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was tested under the experimental line designation NE01481 and was developed cooperatively by the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station and the USDA-ARS and released in 2010. NE01481 will be marketed and sold as Husker Genetics brand McGill. The brand name McGill is in honor of the late Dr. David P. McGill, who was a legendary undergraduate teacher and professor of genetics at the University of Nebraska. NE01481 was released because of its superior grain yield in rainfed wheat production systems in southeastern, south central, and southwestern NE and its resistance to SBWMV, a major potential disease in this region.