Description given on Youtube:
Simon Orford talks through the key stages in the annual cycle of our autumn sown wheat trials based on our farm in Norfolk in the South East of the UK.
From sowing in early through late autumn he describes in detail how to score key traits or characteristics linked to crop performance such as ear emergence, anthesis, crop height, lodging and tiller harvesting that underpin the genetic investigations aimed at understanding and improving the wheat crop.
The video was developed as part of the Wheat Improvement Strategic Programme (WISP), http://www.wheatisp.org/ funded through the BBSRC and presented as part of the annual WISP course on wheat Genetics which is a four day course aimed at anyone with an interest in cereals research and crop breeding. The course is an entry level introduction, giving a taste of wheat genetics, from field trials to QTL analysis (http://wisplandracepillar.jic.ac.uk/training.htm).