Differential Tolerance of Some Arid-Range Wheatgrasses to Snow Mold

Snow mold is most severe under a prolonged spring snow cover, where temperatures are favorable for growth of certain fungi. In the spring of 1971 a replicated plot containing 30 accessions of wheatgrasses provided an opportunity to study differential tolerance to snow mold. On the basis of the percent of 1-year-old plants killed, fairway wheatgrass A-12477X (mean of 4 accessions) was most susceptible with 29.4% mortality, fairway wheatgrass A-1770 (3 accessions) averaged 13.7%, and fairway wheatgrass NM-251 (5 accessions) averaged 2.7%. Crested wheatgrass Nordan (4 accessions) averaged 4.9% mortality. Crested wheatgrass A-1874 (1 accession) averaged 11.3% and crested wheatgrass PI 277354 (2 accessions) averaged 2.3%. Five other sources of crested wheatgrass had significantly less mortality than Nordan. Siberian wheatgrass (5 accessions) averaged 4.2% mortality. Intermediate wheatgrass (1 accession) had no mortality, and only 2 plants out of 300 showed moderate injury.This material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries.The Journal of Range Management archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information.Migrated from OJS platform August 202