TAM 112

    Tam 112 is a hard red winter wheat variety that has adaptation to the low-rainfall areas of the southern and central Great Plains of the U.S.  Tam 112 has superior grain and forage production that any other hard wheat adapted to these regions.

    Tam 112 was developed by the Texas Agricultural experiment Station.  It is an F4 derived line from the cross U1254-7-9-2-1/TXGH10440.  David Worrall, TAES Vernon, made the cross during the winter of 1991-92.  U1254-7-9-2 is a USDA-ARS germplasm line from the Plant Science and Entomology Research unit, Manhattan, Kansas.  It was developed from the cross Tam 200/TA2460.  TA2460 is an Aegilops tascuhii (one of the progenitor species of modern hexaploid wheat) lines that was identified as having a unique gene for leaf rust resistance (this gene has since been designated Ir41).  TXGH10440 was a selection from the same population that Tam 110 was selected from.  TXGH10440 carrier gb2 gene for greenbug resistance from the germplasm line Amigo and gb3 from the synthetic hexaploid line name Largo.  The F3 and F4 generations were grown as bulk populations on the TAES farm at Chillicothe in 1995 (year of harvest) and 1996, respectively.  The line that became Tam 112 was visually selected for its agronomic characteristics and was grown as a single plot in 1998 and in replicated trials thereafter.  The selection criteria were forage potential and grain yield.

U.S. Protected Variety (PVPA 1994 and Title V) - To be sold by variety name only as a class of Certified Seed.