Managing wheat stem sawfly in triticale
Several insects, including the wheat stem sawfly, interfere with biomass and grain production of triticale.
Read this paper in the Canadian Journal of Plant Science.
We conducted a two-year study in southern Alberta to compare the cultivars Pronghorn and AC Ultima in terms of wheat stem sawfly damage and incidence of a parasitoid wasp.
Plants of AC Ultima seeded at high rates were, on average, damaged less than Pronghorn and had more parasitoids.
AC Ultima was characterized by more solid pith development in the lumen, compared with Pronghorn, and it could be a source of germplasm for the development of more resistant solid triticale cultivars
Read the paper — Triticale cultivars and seeding rates affect wheat stem sawfly survivorship and parasitism by Bracon cephi by H. Carcamo, B. Beres, A. Wijerathna, and T. Schwinghamer.
