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Single plants are tagged in the field, cut with a hand sickle and placed in a paper sack to reduce seed loss during transportation to the threshing facility.
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Teresa Hancock counts panicles on single plants that have been harvested.
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Panicles on single plants have been counted and await threshing.
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Electric Bundle Thresher used to remove seeds from single plants.
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Rebecca Herman, USDA technician, threshes single plants while Teresa Hancock catches seeds in labeled envelopes.
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After threshing, seeds from single plants are stored in labeled envelopes. Envelopes will be organized by variety and will be placed in plastic containers for placement in cold storage. Additional phenotypic data will be obtained on the seeds during the winter months.
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A barcode ruler is used to measure the length of a single panicle.
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Branching on single panicles has been counted and a barcode scanner is used to enter the number into a spreadsheet for analysis at a later time.
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CI 11011 variety showing panicle emergence between booting and heading stage
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