From a single seed Tracing the Marquis wheat success story in Canada to its roots in the Ukraine

The author visiting a wheat field in Ukraine

The photo was taken in the research plots at what is now called the Eastern Cereals and Oilseeds Research Centre at the Central Experimental Farm. The sheaves are winter triticale and represent Stephan Symko's research.

The people from the left are: Ann Yarymowich, Stephan Symko-author, now deceased, Linda Pruchnitsky( nee Kohut), Helen Kodak

by
Stephan Symko

preface by
George Fedak
Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre - Ottawa

History... celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the ploughed whereby we thrive; it knows the names of the king's bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. That is the way of human folly.

Jean-Henri Fabre

Omnium rerum ex quibus aliquid acquitur nihil est agricultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine, nihil libero dignius.

Cicéron

Table of Contents

  • About Wheat
    • Classification of Wheat
    • of the Wheat Kernel
    • Botanical Characteristics
    • Slavonic Terms in Wheat Nomenclature
  • Rediscovery of Halychanka (Red Fife) Wheat
    • Wheat Crossings in Canada
    • Discovery of Marquis Wheat
    • The Fame of Marquis
    • General Characteristics of Marquis
    • Ruby and Prelude
    • Hard Red Calcutta
    • Crop Values of Marquis in Canada and the United States
    • The Kitchener and Quality Varieties
    • The Red Bobs Variety
  • Wheat in Western Canada
    • Wheat Grown in the Early Days
    • The Great Wheat Funnel
    • Building Grain Elevators
    • The Canada Grain Act
    • The Impact of World War I on the Wheat Trade
    • Expansion of the Milling Industry
    • The Value of Ukrainian Wheat to Canada's Economy
  • The Quality of Wheat, Flour, and Bread
    • Key Factors in Assessing Wheat Quality
    • Milling and Baking Qualities of Halychanka (Red Fife) Wheat
    • Milling Quality
    • Baking Quality
    • Wheat and Flour Quality
    • World Wheat Quality
  • Breeding High-Quality Wheat Varieties
    • Further Development of Wheat Varieties in Canada
    • Hard Wheat (Triticum durum)
    • Ukrainian Hard Wheat Varieties in Canada
    • Winter Wheat
    • Crossings of Winter Wheat
    • Yield Comparisons between Winter and Spring Wheat
    • How New Varieties Were Bred
    • Evaluation of the Varieties and Selections
    • Soft Wheat Varieties
    • Rust-Resistant Varieties
    • Varieties Resistant to Stinking Smut, Drought and the Hessian Fly
    • Hybrids Sent to the Experimental Farms
    • Improving Winter Wheat

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Research Branch
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
1999

Publication of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
PWGSC- 1999
Catalogue Number A22-197/1999F-IN
ISBN 0-662-83990-0
Created in 1999

Produced by
Strategic Promotion, Research Branch Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Translated from Ukrainien by
VSES Communications, Ottawa, Canada
613-722-3866
vses@magma.ca

For more information on this publication, contact:
George Fedak (george.fedak@agr.gc.ca)
613-759-1393