Registration Of 'Ks Western Star' Hard Red Winter Wheat

'KS Western Star' (Reg. no. CV-1174, PI 693935) hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was developed by the wheat breeding program at the Agricultural Research Center-Hays, Kansas State University, and released by the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station in 2019. KS Western Star was developed with the objectives to further improve drought tolerance, straw strength, and multiple disease resistance of currently available cultivars for western Kansas. KS Western Star was selected from a single cross 'Byrd'/KS05HW121-2 made in 2009. KS Western Star was developed as an F-6-derived line using a modified bulk breeding method and was evaluated in yield trials from 2014 to 2019. It has medium maturity, medium height, and high grain volume weight, as well as high flour yield and good bread-making quality. KS Western Star has good adaption to semi-arid areas in western Kansas with its drought tolerance, stripe rust and leaf rust resistance, and improved lodging resistance.