1. MultiQueen is a synthetic variety with 400 parent plants which were selected sequentially for multifoliolate leaf expression and for resistance to Phytophthora root rot and Aphanomyces root rot (race 1). Parent plants were selected from a 14--clone polycross population where the 14 clones had been selected for high relative feed value (using Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy), forage yield, winter survival, multifoliolate leaf expression, and resistance to Phoma ~~4ca mis from various populations which were themselves ~ recurrent selection for multifoliol