1. Tristar is a population originating from 876 individual plants
selected from a disease and stem nematode nursery near Hollister, California.
All 876 individual plants trace to a certified lot of Duke. Selected plants
were intercrossed in isolation near Hollister, California in 1986. The
resulting Synthetic-one generation seed is designated as breeders seed.
Germplasm of this cultivar traces to M. falcata (5%), Ladak (6%), M. varia
(20%), Turkistan (10%), Flemish (22%), Chilean (29%), Peruvian (1%), Indian
(0%), African (0%), Arabian (0%) and unknown (7%).
2. Tristar is adapted to the western United States and is int