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PLANT VARIETIES JOURNAL 1999 VOL <strong>12</strong> NO. 2<br />

carried out. Trial design: twelve plots measuring 2 x 1 m 2<br />

planted in the field in loamy sand of uniform texture, using<br />

4 replicates each of the candidate and comparator varieties.<br />

One hundred stolons were used to establish individual trial<br />

plot replicates from pre-trial field plantings of each variety,<br />

established at the site in 1997. Measurements: 100 random<br />

samples for unmown height, leaf length and width, node<br />

frequency, 25 for rhizome/stolon thickness, angle of shoot<br />

emergence, <strong>12</strong> grid counts for seed head density.<br />

Prior Applications and Sales Nil.<br />

Description: Jyri Kaapro, Turfgrass Technology Pty Ltd, Granville,<br />

NSW.<br />

Table 10 Cynodon varieties<br />

‘Plateau’ *‘Riley’s Super *‘Greenlees<br />

Sport’ A Park’<br />

PLANT GROWT HABIT<br />

prostrate, very prostrate, bunched,<br />

spreading spreading spreading<br />

NODE DENSITY<br />

high very high medium<br />

UNMOWN HEIGHT (mm)<br />

mean 35.09 30.01 301.63<br />

std deviation 1.53 1.57 13.80<br />

LSD/sig 2.65 P≤0.01 P≤0.01<br />

LEAF LENGTH (mm) Measured 3rd leaf down from terminal<br />

shoot<br />

mean 20.83 13.95 75.31<br />

std deviation 2.48 2.39 6.50<br />

LSD/sig 1.40 P≤0.01 P≤0.01<br />

LEAF WIDTH (mm) Measured 3rd leaf down from terminal<br />

shoot<br />

mean 2.31 2.26 2.39<br />

std deviation 0.23 0.25 0.35<br />

LSD/sig 0.09 ns ns<br />

LEAF LENGTH / WIDTH RATIO Measured 3rd leaf down<br />

from terminal shoot<br />

mean 9.<strong>12</strong> 6.24 31.81<br />

std deviation 1.44 1.28 2.71<br />

LSD/sig 0.63 P≤0.01 P≤0.01<br />

NODE FREQUENCY (number/cm)<br />

Measured down from base of terminal shoot in established sward<br />

mean 5.03 6.60 4.30<br />

std deviation 1.46 1.19 0.70<br />

LSD/sig 0.38 P≤0.01 P≤0.01<br />

RHIZOME THICKNESS (mm) Measured 1cm below soil<br />

surface<br />

mean 1.93 1.62 1.18<br />

std deviation 0.30 0.36 0.20<br />

LSD/sig 0.21 P≤0.01 P≤0.01<br />

STOLON THICKNESS (mm)<br />

mean 1.06 1.29 1.00<br />

std deviation 0.17 0.25 0.29<br />

LSD/sig 0.17 P≤0.01 ns<br />

RHIZOME/STOLON THICKNESS RATIO<br />

mean 1.83 1.29 1.26<br />

std deviation 0.33 0.33 0.45<br />

LSD/sig 0.26 P≤0.01 P≤0.01<br />

SEED HEAD DENSITY (number/100cm 2 )<br />

mean 9.17 <strong>12</strong>.33 3.83<br />

std deviation 1.34 1.50 0.94<br />

LSD/sig 3.71 ns P≤0.01<br />

SHOOT EMERGENCE ANGLE (0 o = vertical, 90 o =<br />

horizontal)<br />

mean 79.96 o 85.00 o 71.04 o<br />

std deviation 2.130 1.93 4.51<br />

LSD/sig 0.90 P≤0.01 P≤0.01<br />

LEAF COLOUR (RHS 1995)<br />

137A-B 147A 137C<br />

FABA BEAN<br />

Vicia faba<br />

‘Fiesta VF’<br />

Application No: 97 / 327 Accepted: 11 Dec 1997.<br />

Applicant: Luminis Pty Ltd (as assignee from The<br />

University of Adelaide), Adelaide, SA and<br />

Grains Research and Development Corporation, Barton,<br />

ACT.<br />

Characteristics (Table 11, Figure 38) Plant: indeterminate<br />

growth habit, height medium, flowering intermediate,<br />

maturity intermediate. Flowers: white, standard petal slight<br />

– moderate streaks, melanin spot on wing petal. Pod: length<br />

medium, curvature absent or slight. Seed: medium (mean<br />

0.75g), shape broad elliptical, colour beige, hilum black.<br />

Disease reaction: more resistant to foliar diseases than other<br />

<strong>Australia</strong>n faba bean varieties, moderately susceptible to<br />

chocolate spot, caused by Botrytis fabae and heterogeneous<br />

for reaction to Ascochyta blight caused by Ascochyta fabae<br />

with an overall population rating of moderately resistant.<br />

Origin and Breeding Phenotypic selection followed by<br />

open pollination: ‘Fiesta VF’ was originally designated as<br />

Acc483 in the University of Adelaide Faba bean Breeding<br />

Program. Acc483 was selected from the inbred line<br />

BPL1196 seln B8817 obtained from the International<br />

Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Syria.<br />

The parent population was characterised by uneven seed<br />

size. Following multiplication in quarantine at the Waite<br />

Campus in 1991, progeny of single plants of BPL1196 seln<br />

B8817 were divided into two selections, Acc483 (100 seed<br />

weight 67g) and Acc649 (100 seed weight 109g). Acc483<br />

was multiplied in an isolation plot (200m from other faba<br />

beans) at Glenthorne Research Farm, O’Halloran Hill, SA,<br />

in 1992 and sorted to remove off-type seeds. Seed produced<br />

from a multiplication of Acc483 in 1994, and graded over<br />

9mm and 11.5mm sieves, was selected to become the<br />

variety ‘Fiesta VF’. Grading to improve uniformity of seed<br />

size occurred during all subsequent generations of<br />

multiplication (1994-1997). Intra-population crosspollination<br />

was allowed at all stages of multiplication to<br />

ensure inbreeding depression did not occur within the<br />

population. Selection criteria: seed characteristics (size and<br />

colour), grain yield and disease resistance (chocolate spot,<br />

moderately susceptible and Ascochyta blight moderately<br />

resistant). Propagation: seed grown in spatial isolation from<br />

other faba beans through 5 generations. Breeders: Ron<br />

Knight and Jeff Paull, Waite Campus, University of<br />

Adelaide, Glen Osmond, SA.<br />

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