Registration of 'Devote'soft white winter wheat

The development of soft white winter (SWW) wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars requires numerous traits to be successfully commercialized in the low- to intermediate-rainfall (<400-mm average annual precipitation) wheat production regions of the state of Washington, including winterhardiness, high grain volume weight, acceptable end-use quality, and resistance to stripe rust, Fusarium crown rot (FCR), strawbreaker foot rot, and snow mold. Two essential traits for the low- to intermediate-rainfall production regions of the state are emergence from deep planting and high grain yield under low annual rainfall conditions. 'Devote' (Reg. no. CV-1170, PI 693628) SWW wheat was developed and released in March 2019 by the Agricultural Research Center of Washington State University. Devote is a semidwarf cultivar adapted for the low- to intermediate-rainfall wheat production regions of the state, emerges well under deep planting conditions, and is winter hardy. Devote has high-temperature adult-plant resistance to the stripe rust pathogen, carries the Pchl gene for strawbreaker foot rot, is resistant to FCR and tolerant to snow mold, is intermediate in height, has late-season maturity, and has high grain volume weight and grain yield. The end-use quality properties of Devote are acceptable for cookie, cake, and cracker production.