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Stegmeier Millet Lines -
Photos Taken At Plainview, Tx On August 19, 1999
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DR.
WILLIAM D. STEGMEIER
1932-1998
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William D "Bill" Stegmeier,
Associate Professor Emeritus of Agronomy at Kansas State University, and a key member of the INTSORMIL millet research team, passed away July 25, 1998 at the age of 66. Bill was a valued member of the INTSORMIL CRSP beginning in 1978 and worked with researchers both in the United States and in other countries to improved pearl millet production. Some of the important contributions he made include the following:
- Conversion of tall, late maturing, tropically adapted pearl millets to dwarf, early-maturing, high-yielding grain-type hybrids adapted to the mid latitudes of the U.S.
- Development of experimental hybrids from landrace materials from the USDA Plant Introduction Station, two improved cultivars from Uganda, and dwarf forage-type, cytoplasmic-genic male sterile lines from the USDA Georgia program.
- In 1996, two lines Bill bred from PI 185642 were used as female parents of pearl millet hybrids that are grown on nearly
two million hectares in India--representing one-half of the total area planted to millet hybrids in that country.
- Improvement of grain yields of pearl millet, resulting in grain yield potentials
of the best Hays experimental hybrids, now 5,350 to 7,130 pounds per acre, a two-fold genetic enhancement over pearl millet grain yields in Hays in the 1970's.
- Development of hundreds of adapted breeding lines that are being preserved by Kansas State University, as they represent a unique pool of genetic variability for the future breeding of both grain and forage pearl millets.
Kansas State University and Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. agreed that it would be useful to grow out Bill Stegmeier's collection for millet breeders to view and request samples of lines of interest. The grow-out by Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. was done in 1999, and the photos below are of lines listed in the field book for the collection grow-out. Photos are identified by the following code:
pXXnoYY, where XX is the page number of the "1999 Plainview KSU Millet Project" field book and YY is the number of the entry in the next-to-right-hand column of the designated page.
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Page 3, #84
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Page 3, #96
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Page 3, #102
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Page 3, #110
(sticky exudate)
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Page 4, #135
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Page 4, #154
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Page 4, #159
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Page 5, #169
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Page 6, #235
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Page 8, #293
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Page 12, #79
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Page 12, #111
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Page 13, #140
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Page 13, #148
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Page 15, #55
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Page 16, #73
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Page 16, #84
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Page 17, #126
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Page 18, #154
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Page 18, #175
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Page 19, #209
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Page 21, #264
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Page 22, #27
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Page 23, #34
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Page 23, #50
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Page 24, #82
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Page 26, #60
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Unidentified person, Dr. W. Hanna, Dr. K.
Kofoid, Mr. S. Podduturi
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Contact
person for germplasm is:
Dr. Kenneth Kofoid
KSU Ag Research Center-Hays
1232 240th Avenue
Hays KS 67601-9228
Phone:
785-625-3425 Ext.
219
FAX:
785-623-4369
[email protected]
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