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Article: Registration of `Midland 99' forage bermudagrass. (Registrations Of Cultivars).
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- Crop Science
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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`Midland 99' bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.] (Reg. no. CV-42, PI 628792) was jointly released by the Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, and Missouri Agricultural Experiment Stations, the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, and the USDA-ARS in April 1999.
Midland 99 is an [F.sub.1] hybrid (2n = 4x = 36) from the cross PI 269370/PI 292143 (6-X-820)//A12156/A10978b-4 (7-X-59) made in 1974. PI 269370/PI 292143 was an [F.sub.1] hybrid designated as 6-X-820. PI 269370 (Okla. Acc. A8800) is C. dactylon var. afghanicus J.R. Harlan & de Wet from Afghanistan, and PI 292143 (Oklahoma Accession A10421) is C. nlemfuensis var. robustus from Ghana. A12156/A10978b-4, also an ...