Problems of amenity grass seed production in New Zealand

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
L. Corkill ◽  
W. Rumball
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Seed Production ◽  
Direct Selection ◽  
Usual Practice ◽  
Grass Seed ◽  
Breeding Management ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Seed Yields ◽  
Selection Of

The problems of seed production of amenity grasses in New Zealand are considered from two aspects - (a) increasing seed potential by breeding; (b) achieving that potential by good management as practised in the Netherlands, (a) In terms of breeding, the strategies to increase seed yield depended to some degree on the species concerned. With browntop it was necessary to discard about two-thirds of the most promising genotypes because of poor heading, but the remaining genotypes flowered freely and in unison, and gave good seed yields. With fescue even the best original plants were sparsely heading, so direct selection for prolificacy has been needed. This was also carried out for perennial ryegrass, as well as selection of early-heading genotypes to avoid infection by stem rust. (b) It is suggested that areas for seed of amenity grasses in New Zealand should be used for seed production only rather than for both forage and seed as is the usual practice. Techniques used in the Netherlands could serve as guidelines to procedures. The implications of low seeding rates, good weed control, high fertilizer applications and minimum cutting or grazing in promoting strong individual plants capable of high seed yields are discussed. Keywords: Amenity grass, seed production, New Zealand, breeding, management, Netherlands, Agrostis tenuis, Festuca rubra, Lolium perenne

The genetic basis of growth, reproduction, and maternal environment in Romney ewes. II.* Genetic covariation between hogget characters, fertility, and maternal environment of the ewe

1972 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
TS Ch'ang ◽  
AL Rae
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Genetic Gain ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Genetic Correlations ◽  
Direct Selection ◽  
Maternal Environment ◽  
Subsequent Fertility ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Reproductive Characters ◽  
Selection Of

This paper is the second in a series of studies on the genetic variation and covariation in growth and reproductive characters of the New Zealand Romney sheep. The data used were obtained over a period of 11 years (1955–1965 inclusive) from a random bred experimental flock maintained at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Phenotypic correlations were estimated between the ewe's liveweights, oestrous performance at the hogget stage (from weaning to about 14 months), and her subsequent fertility (number of lambs born per ewe) at the first lambing (2-year-old) or over several lambings. These correlations were compared from the viewpoint of accuracy in predicting, prior to first mating, a young ewe's potential fertility over one or several lambings during her own lifetime. The results suggest that for this purpose, the predictive accuracy of the hogget characters is generally low but comparable with, and in some cases, substantially greater than, that obtainable from fertility records belonging to the dam of the young ewe. Three different methods were used to estimate the genetic correlations. In general, the pattern of genetic correlations, either within the hogget characters or between them and fertility of the ewe, is predominantly one of positive values ranging from moderate size to unity. In contrast, most of the maternal genetic correlations were negative. The relative efficiency of indirect versus direct selection for genetic gain in various characters was examined under different assumptions made with regard to the maternal effect. Indirect selection, based on the measurement of hogget (yearling) liveweight or number of hogget oestruses, for genetic gain in fertility of the Romney ewe is expected, on present evidence, to be more efficient than direct selection. Of the two characters, hogget liveweight is likely to find wider application because it can be more easily measured. _________________ *Part I, Aust. J. Agric. Res., 21: 115 (1970)

Evaluation of Large-Sunflower Lines of Sunflower on Quantitative Morphological Traits

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-55
Keyword(s):  
Fertility Restoration ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Direct Selection ◽  
Oilseed Crops ◽  
Turkish Origin ◽  
Self Pollination ◽  
Special Area ◽  
Pericarp Color ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Selection Of

Confectionery sunflower - a special area of use of sunflower, which requires the creation of marketable seeds quality features. One of the possible ways to create large-fruited sunflower is to create production hybrids and lines. Objective: to evaluate the created new large-fruited sunflower lines by a complex of morphological characters and determine the best lines for use as large-seeds hybrids as parent components or source material. In 2016-2019 years on the basis of the Institute of Oilseed Crops NAAS a study was conducted to assess the economic characteristics of large-fruited sunflower lines. We studied a collection of 27 lines of large-seeds sources. The lines were created by direct selection or crossing and sampling: Reyny of Argentinean origin, Zaporizhzhya confectionery variety, confectionery hybrid with striped pericarp color of Israeli origin, white seed of Turkish origin, synthetic population - donor of complex resistance. To study from the collection, lines were drawn that went through at least 7 generations with selection for seed size. Experience has shown that the shortest growing season for lines 174d and KP11 was 99 days, and the longest for lines I2K670 was 109 days. In the studied collection, the greatest mass of 1000 seeds has the KP11-146.47g line, which is the mother component and does not have branching. The second by weight of 1000 seeds (109 g) stood out line 168v, which also had branches and pollen fertility restoration genes and will be used as the paternal form. The third largest is also one basket line ZKN51-100. The collection included lines originating from the same combination, but with a different morphotype for the presence and absence of branching. So, based on the combination of KP11 x Zaporizhzhya Confectionery, three lines were obtained. A mass of 1000 seeds was observed in 98-86 g, with the branching line having the largest mass of 1000 seeds. The lines created with one combination VK678 x ZKN32: with a branch 168a had a mass of 1000 seeds 95g, and a line 168b - without a branch 109 g. Of the two lines obtained from the descendants of the combination KP11 x the striped hybrid both had branches, but the seeds were much smaller (weight of 1000 seeds 59 and 79 g). The collection also studied samples created on the basis of varieties and populations 160c, 174, 175b, the mass of 1000 seeds of which turned out to be more acceptable for large-fruited use from 83 to 99 g. Summing up the results of studying the collection of newly created lines, we can highlight the lines 162d, 168v, 175b, KP11 that are potentially promising for use in hybrids. The selections showed that large-fruited lines can be obtained from large-fruited varieties, self-pollination of large-fruited hybrids and crossing lines with hybrids and varieties. Self-pollination and selection of large-fruited lines in several generations does not provide the necessary variability for positive changes in selections. The result of the selection by weight of 1000 seeds in the offspring from crosses and from populations creates opportunities for new large-seeds sunflower.

scholarly journals An Experiment In Breeding Cut Roses For The Indonesian Highlands

Zuriat ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. de Vries ◽  
, Darliah ◽  
Lidwien A.M. Dubois
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Clonal Plant ◽  
Clonal Plants ◽  
Scientific Programme ◽  
Plant Research ◽  
Selection For ◽  
The Rose ◽  
Cut Rose ◽  
Location Interaction ◽  
Selection Of

BIOBREES is a co-operative scientific programme between Indonesia and The Netherlands, of which the rose part aims at breeding cut roses adapted to the tropical highland. Within that scope four direct plant characters of 62 cut rose genotypes in different physiological stages were studied. The genotypes originated from cross-breeding in 1995 and successive selection for cut rose properties in populations at Plant Research International, Wageningen, The Netherlands, in 1996. Plant stages stuAn died were (i) superior adult seedlings in Wageningen in 1996, (ii) clones grafted onto Natal Briar both in Wageningen and Cipanas in 1997. Clonal Plant Research International, Wageningen, Plant Research International, Wageningen, clonal plants in Cipanas had significantly shorter shoots, more thorns, smaller flowers and fewer petals than the adult seedlings in Wageningen. Clonal plants in Wageningen, however, had significantly longer shoots; more thorns, and larger flowers with more petals than the seedlings in Wageningen. Despite differences in level of expression, for each character the absence of genotype-location interaction was ascertained. The expression of characters as influenced by light (both quantitative and qualitative), temperature and cultivation is discussed in relation to selection of cut roses in the temperate zone, which are adapted to the tropical highland.

Convergent‐Divergent Selection for Seed Production and Forage Traits in Orchardgrass: I. Direct Selection Responses

Crop Science ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 1047-1053 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Casler ◽  
I. T. Carlson ◽  
C. C. Berg ◽  
D. A. Sleper ◽  
R. E. Barker
Keyword(s):  
Seed Production ◽  
Divergent Selection ◽  
Direct Selection ◽  
Selection Responses ◽  
Selection For

Lotus uliginosus (greater lotus) breeding line LUX97: a high seed producing, low condensed tannin population

2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. M. Kelman ◽  
M. J. Blumenthal ◽  
J. W. O'Connor ◽  
P. A. Borchard
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Seed Production ◽  
Condensed Tannin ◽  
Early Flowering ◽  
Breeding Line ◽  
Plant Industry ◽  
Tannin Content ◽  
Production Potential ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Lotus Uliginosus

A Lotus uliginosus polycross population (LUX97) was developed from high seed producing Portuguese accessions and locally adapted New Zealand germplasms. Two cycles of selection for early flowering and low condensed tannin content were successful in producing a population with lower condensed tannin content than the Portuguese parents, while maintaining high seed production potential. Seed of this population will be stored at the CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra.

scholarly journals GRASS SEED PRODUCTION: WEEDS, HERBICIDES AND FERTILISERS

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
M.P. Ralston ◽  
K.R. Brown ◽  
M.D. Hare ◽  
K.A. Young
Keyword(s):  
Seed Production ◽  
Stem Elongation ◽  
Grass Species ◽  
Wild Oat ◽  
Weed Species ◽  
Grass Seed ◽  
Prairie Grass ◽  
Seed Crops ◽  
Seed Yields ◽  
Bromus Mollis

Four weed species (Bromus mollis, Vulpia sp., Poa annua, Steltaria media) occur in 30% or more of all perennial ryegrass seed samples. Of the listed undesirable species, Avena fatua (wild oat) and Hordeum murinum occurred respectively in 5.3 and 3.5% of ryegrass seedlots. Only 6 herbicides are registered for use in grass seed crops in New Zealand, 2 for wild oat, and 4 for broadleaved weeds. The results of research on weed control in seedling and established seed crops (ryegrass, cocksfoot, tall fescue, phalaris, prairie grass) are presented. Fertilisers for grass seed crops discussed are nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), lime and zinc. Autumn N is commonly used and will increase seed yields in early flowering species (Pestuca rubra, F. arundinacea), but in ryegrass variable results have occurred. Spring N should be applied at stem elongation. No responses to P have been reported for ryegrass, while in established cocksfoot responses to P and K have been reported. Overliming can induce Zn deficiencies, and of the grass species only prairie grass may require lime. Keywords: Lolium, ryegrass, seed production, weed occurrence, Bromus mollis, herbicides, fertilisers, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, lime, zinc

The effects of frosts on seed production in subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum)

1971 ◽  
Vol 11 (49) ◽  
pp. 202 ◽  
Author(s):  
WR Scott
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Seed Production ◽  
Subterranean Clover ◽  
Trifolium Subterraneum ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Seed Yields

Six cultivars of subterranean clover, Geraldton, Yarloop, Woogenellup, Clare, Mount Barker, and Tallarook, were grown as ungrazed swards at 1,700 feet a.s.1. in the Mackenzie Country of South Canterbury, New Zealand. In this very frosty environment seed yields tended to increase with increasing lateness of flowering although Clare and perhaps Tallarook appeared to be more frost susceptible than the other cultivars. It is suggested that the deleterious effects of frosts in reducing the seed yields of subterranean clover may have been overemphasized in the past and that the trend for seed yields to increase with increasing lateness of flowering can be partially explained by differences in runner production.

scholarly journals An Improved Cloning Vector for Construction of Gene Replacements in Listeria monocytogenes

2003 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 3020-3023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guojie Li ◽  
S. Kathariou
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Listeria Monocytogenes ◽  
Plasmid Vector ◽  
Gene Replacement ◽  
Direct Selection ◽  
Genetic Studies ◽  
Food Borne ◽  
Food Borne Illness ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACT Listeria monocytogenes is a gram-positive, facultative intracellular bacterium implicated in severe food-borne illness (listeriosis) in humans. The construction of well-defined gene replacements in the genome of L. monocytogenes has been instrumental to several genetic studies of the virulence and other attributes of the organism. Construction of such mutations by currently available procedures, however, tends to be labor intensive, and gene replacement mutants are sometimes difficult to recover due to lack of direct selection for the construct. In this study we describe the construction and use of plasmid vector pGF-EM, which can be conjugatively transferred from Escherichia coli S17-1 to L. monocytogenes and which provides the genetic means for direct selection of gene replacements.

XXX.—Pollination and Seed Production in the Rye-Grasses (Lolium perenne and Lolium italicum)

1928 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 773-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Gregor
Keyword(s):  
Seed Production ◽  
Lolium Perenne ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Direct Selection ◽  
Genetic Composition ◽  
Plant Group ◽  
Selective Agents ◽  
Established Plant ◽  
Group Change ◽  
Selection Of

Various selective agents exert their influence on the processes governing the survival of new forms within an established plant group. As the balance of these agents changes so also will the genetic composition of the plant group change. Environmental conditions undoubtedly permit and direct evolution, but apparently the action of the environment is mainly selective in nature, and, although not directly concerned in the production of new growthforms, it aids the survival of suitable forms by establishing a certain amount of genotype isolation. Amongst the various selective agents whose action is confined to the direct selection of genotypes, or phenotypes and therefore indirectly of genotypes, there is the important question of pollination and fertilisation. As the very existence of individuals depends on compatible fertilisation, the investigation of the problem of pollination and fertilisation obtaining within a plant group is essential preparatory to any study of the survival of individuals within that plant group.

scholarly journals The place of amenity grass seed production.

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 24-25
Author(s):  
G.S. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Seed Production ◽  
Lolium Perenne ◽  
Festuca Rubra ◽  
Agrostis Palustris ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Grass Seed ◽  
Red Fescue ◽  
Agrostis Tenuis

In recent years the supply of seed of local types of fine turf grasses has decreased. This has resulted in the need for the importation of overseas cultivars of browntop, creeping bent grass and red fescue. These have generally proved to be very effective in producing high-quality turf. The coarser types of turf used in sportsfields for football and cricket are ideally ryegrass-dominant. Fine-leaved perennial ryegrasses have been developed overseas. and experimental plantings of these in New Zealand look very promising. Keywords: Amenity grass, New Zealand, Agrostis tenuis Lolium perenne, Agrostis palustris, Festuca rubra.

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