| Given name + traits | Accession # + images + dates | Genetic data | OriginNOTE + collected | Ancestry | Other names + other # | Notes | ||
| # CItr 6477 @ USDA-ARS (USA) INFO > GRIS | GRIS{Ne1, Ne2} | United States, Vermont (collected) site: Yaqui, Vermont date: 1st May. 1919 altitude: 14 m. country: Mexico, Sonora site info: USDA-ARS map link | other # = Defiance; AUS 7192; CI 6477; ; GRIS{K-5786; PI-45389; CI-6477,8406,5031,6076;} | Remark: Defiance is the result of a cross of White Hamburg as the male parent and Golden Drop as the female parent, which was made by Cyrus G. Pringle, in the Champlain Valley, near Charlotte, VT in 1871. It was first distributed in 1878 by B.C. Bliss & Sons as Pringle's Defiance. It showed three distinct types of grain. Prof. A.E. Blount took some of this wheat to the Colorado Agric. Exp. Station, where he grew it during a number of years and made careful selections. Three commercial varieties were developed from it: Early Defiance, Colorado No. 50, and Regenerated Defiance. Prof. A.H. Danielson, who succeeded Prof. Blount at the Colorado station, has recorded the following interesting history of the origin of Defiance wheat: The mother of Defiance traces back to southern England and was originated by F.F. Hallett of Brighton in the 1860's. He is the man who first used the word 'pedigree' as applied to wheat. The mother was a decided club-shaped type with pretty red grain, somewhat soft, and Hallett called it the Golden Drop, which was quite popular in England, but never amounted to much either in this country or Australia. From England it went to Canada where a man named Pringle got it as the Canada Club. The father of Defiance was a Dutchman from Germany. It came from Hamburg from whence lots of wheat emigrated in those days. It had a long coarse broad head, a big white berry, and a rank-growing constitution with good ability to stand on its feet. Good old White Hamburg has long since been dead and buried to cultivation, at least under that name, but was largely grown on the Pacific slope during the early days of cereal culture there. | ||||
