PICKSEED 8925MF
1. Pickseed 8925MF is a synthetic variety with 108parent plants. Parents were selected based onclonal and/or progeny testsfor forage yield, forage quality, fall dormancy reaction, persistence,pestresistance and/or multifoliolate leaf expression from breeding populationspreviouslyselected for persistence and/or resistance to one or more of thefollowing pests: bacterial wilt,Fusariurm wilt, anthracnose (race 1), Phytophthoraroot rot, Aphanomyces root rot (race 1), andspotted alfalfa aphid. A combinationof genotypic and phenotypic recurrent selection was usedin the developmentof this variety. The parental populations from which all parent plants werederived trace to the following cultivars: BlazerXL (15%), 8920MF (15%), DK127(12%), G2841(10%), DK133 (10%), MP2000 (8%), Lightning (8%), Excalibur II(8%), Accord (7%), 5454(5%), and Sterling (2%). Breeder seed (syn1) was producednear Nampa, Idaho, in 1994. Breederseed was harvested as the bulk from allplants Approximate germplasm. source contributionsare: M. falcata (3%), Ladak (4%), M. varia (25%), Turkistan (5%), Flemish(59%), and Chilean(4%).
2. This variety is adapted to the north central U.S.This variety has been tested in Wisconsin,Minnesota,and Iowa and will be used in the northern U.S. and eastern Canada.
3. This variety has fall dormancy similar to FD3 checksand winter survival similar to WS2checks. Flowercolor (syn2) is 85% purple and 15% variegated with a tram of yellow, creamandwhite. Pickseed 8925MF has high multifoliolateleaf expression.
4. This variety has high resistance to bacterial wilt,Fusarium wilt, anthracnose (race 1), andPhytophthoraroot rot; resistance to Aphanomyces root rot (race 1), Verticillium wilt,and peaaphid; and moderate resistance to stem nematodeand spotted alfalfa aphid. Reaction to bluealfalfaaphid and root knot nematode have not been tested.
5. Seed increase is on a limited generation basis withone generation of breeder and twogenerations offoundation and certified seed classes. Breeder (syn1), foundation (syn2 or3), andcertified (syn3 or 4) classes will be recognized.Production of syn3 foundation seed requiresconsentof the breeder. Breeder seed was produced near Nampa, Idaho, in 1994. Sufficientfoundation seed for the projected life of thevariety will be maintained by Forage Genetics.Standsof foundation and certified seed fields are limited to three and six years,respectively.
6. Certified seed will be marketed in 1998.
7. No decision has been made concerning Plant VarietyProtection Act.
8. The information in this application can not be forwardedto the PVP office.
9. Variety name: Pickseed 8925W
Experimental designations FG 3L23
Date first accepted: January 1998
Date this amendment submitted: November 1, 1999