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Inflorescence development and seed production in Lolium spp. × Festuca pratensis tetraploid hybrids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

P. Cremades  and
E. W. Bean
P. Cremades
Affiliation:
Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth
E. W. Bean
Affiliation:
Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth
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Summary

The reproductive development and seed production characters of a Lolium multiflorum × Festuca pratensis tetraploid hybrid and a Lolium perenne × Festuca pratensis tetraploid hybrid were compared with those of their tetraploid parental cultivars. Experiments were carried out under glasshouse and natural conditions; single plants were studied as only small quantities of seed were available from the breeder. The lowtemperature/short-day requirements for inflorescence induction of the two hybrids were in between those of the corresponding parental species. The variance of the date at which vegetative primordia changed to the reproductive condition was greater in the hybrids than in the parental cultivars, but the variance of the dates of inflorescence emergence were similar for the hybrids and parental cultivars. Inflorescences ranged from the Lolium type with only sessile spikelets to the Festuca type with primary branches. Inner glumes, which are absent in the Lolium parents but present in Festuca pratensis, were found in the hybrids, though not in all spikelets. In the Lolium perenne × Festuca pratensis hybrid pollen release, potential pollen viability and floret fertility were low, but the Lolium multiflorum × Festuca pratensis hybrid produced large amounts of pollen with a higher potential viability and had floret fertilities similar to those of its two parental cultivars. There was sufficient variation in reproductive characters for further selection, particularly in the Lolium perenne × Festuca pratensis hybrid.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , October 1975 , pp. 301 - 307
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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