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Article: Registration of 'Patriot' white clover.(Registrations Of Cultivars)
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- Crop Science
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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'Patriot' white clover (Trifolium repens L.) (Reg. no. CV-8, PI 633851) was developed by the University of Georgia Agricultural Experiment Stations and AgResearch Ltd. (New Zealand). It was tested experimentally as GA-21159 and GC89.
One hundred ninety-two naturalized ecotypes were selected from perennial grass pastures near Eatonton, GA. These were intermated and their seed bulked to produce the germplasm GA-ETN. Forty randomly selected plants from GA-ETN were hybridized by hand with 40 randomly selected plants from the germplasm SRVR. Equal amounts of seed from each individual hybridization were bulked and the bulked seed increased in isolation to produce ...