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Published in Crop Sci 11:109-112 (1971)
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Cytology and Agronomic Performance of Lolium-Festuca Hybrid Derivatives1

G. T. Webster and R. C. Buckner2

Interpollination of colchicine-induced 56-chromosome amphiploids selected for fertility and seed set through six generations resulted in meiotically unstable plants representing nearly the entire range of 42 to 56 chromosomes. Within one line, meiotically stable plants (2n42) were recovered from crosses between amphiploids and F1 annual ryegrass x tall rescue. Several of these were superior to tall rescue in seedling vigor, total forage yield and palatability. Meiosis of progenies of reciprocal cross combinations tended to be similar to that of the maternal parent as measured by the number of micronuclei perpollen quartets.

Key Words: Intergeneric hybrids • Grass breeding • Meiosis • Amphiploids

1 Cooperative investigations at Lexington, Kentucky, of the Department of Agronomy, University of Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station and the Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. The investigation reported, in connection with projects of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, is published with the approval of the Director as paper number 70-3-87.

2 Professor of Agronomy, Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, and Research Agronomist, Crops Research Division, ARS, USDA, Lexington, Ky. 40506.

Received for publication July 27, 1970.




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