This seed is being distributed in accordance with the "Wheat Workers' Code of Ethics For Distribution of Germplasm", developed and adopted by the National Wheat Improvement Committee on November 5, 1994.  Acceptance of this seed constitutes agreement.

1.  The originating breeder, institution, or company has certain rights to the unreleased material.  These rights are not waived with the distribution of seeds or plant material but remain with the originator.

2.  The recipient of unreleased seeds or plant material shall make no secondary distributions of the germplasm without the permission of the owner/breeder.

3.  The owner/breeder in distributing unreleased seeds or other propagating material grants permission for its use in tests under the recipient's control or as a parent for making crosses from which selections will be made. 

 Uses for which written approval of the owner/breeder is required include:

    (a) Testing in regional or international nurseries;

    (b) Increase and release as a cultivar;

    (c) Reselection from within the stock;

    (d) Use as a parent of a commercial F1 hybrid, synthetic, or multi-line cultivar;

    (e) Use as a recurrent parent in backcrossing;

    (f) Mutation breeding;

    (g) Selection of somaclonal variants; or

    (h) Use as a recipient parent for asexual gene transfer, including gene transfer molecular genetic techniques.

4.  Plant materials of this nature entered in crop cultivar trials shall not be used for seed increase.  Reasonable precautions to ensure retention or recovery of plant materials at harvest shall be taken.

This Home Page is intended to provide information and results associated with the Hard Winter Wheat Performance Nursery Program, conducted in cooperation with State Agricultural Experiment Stations, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, and private companies involved in wheat improvement.  This site contains preliminary data on experimental wheat cultivars which are primarily intended for use by cooperators and those with special interest in wheat improvement efforts.  The data and reports are not intended for publication and should not be referred to in literature citations, nor publicity or advertising.  Use of the data may be granted for certain purposes upon written request to the appropriate agency.

Wheat germplasm in the Hard Winter Wheat Regional Nursery Program is distributed and evaluated under guidelines of the Wheat Worker's Code of Ethics (National Wheat Improvement Committee, 1994).