Registration of 'NE01643' Wheat

'NE01643' (Reg. No. CV-1020, PI 647959) hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was developed cooperatively by the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station and the USDA-ARS and released in 2007 by the developing institutions and the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. NE01643, the legal name for this cultivar, will be marketed under the name Husker Genetics Brand Overland in honor of the pioneers who crossed and stayed in the northern prairies. In addition to researchers at the releasing institutions, USDA-ARS researchers at Manhattan, KS, and St. Paul, MN, participated in the development of NE01643. NE01643 was selected from the cross 'Millennium' (PI 613099) sib/ ND8974 that was made in 1995. The pedigree of ND8974 is 'Seward' (PI 508289)/'Archer'. Archer was developed by AgriPro Seeds Inc. and has the pedigree: 'Sonora 64' (CI 13930)/'Trapper' (CI 13999)/2/'Warrior' (CI13190)/3/'Centurk' (CI 15075). NE01643 was selected as an F(3:4) line (F(3)-derived line in the F(4) generation) in 1999, and in 2001 was assigned experimental line number NE01643. NE01643 was released because of its superior grain-yield performance under non-irrigated production in Nebraska, South Dakota, and adjacent states.