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

Table 29 Continued<br />

FLOWER LENGTH (mm)<br />

to base of calyx<br />

mean 37.1 33.0 34.0 37.0<br />

std deviation 1.9 1.9 1.8 2.4<br />

LSD/sig 2.3 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 ns<br />

FLOWER COLOURS (RHS, 1995)<br />

standard petal 92A-92B 79A edged 97D with 91D with<br />

with 88A 97A margin 91A margin<br />

wing petals 88A to 89A 91C centre with 91C centre with 91B centre with<br />

edged with 91A 79A margin 79A margin 79A margin<br />

keel petal 92A lobe with 79A lobe margin 79A lobe margin 79A lobe margin<br />

155D centre 14A centre with 9A centre with 9A centre with<br />

91C surround 91B-C surround 91B surround<br />

throat 92A 14A 14A 14A<br />

veins 79C-D 88B 88B 88B<br />

many, prominent less prominent less prominent less prominent<br />

calyx 144A 144A with 144C with 144C with<br />

145B margin 59A margin 59A margin<br />

CALYX LENGTH (mm)<br />

mean 19.4 16.8 17.5 19.9<br />

std deviation 1.0 1.2 0.9 2.2<br />

LSD/sig 1.6 P≤0.01 P≤0.01 ns<br />

INCIDENCE OF FOLIAR DISEASE<br />

powdery mildew absent high medium-high absent<br />

botrytis low medium-high high low<br />

TRITICALE<br />

xTriticosecale<br />

‘Maiden’<br />

Application No: 93/072 Accepted: 1 Mar 1993.<br />

Applicant: The University of Sydney, Plant Breeding<br />

Institute, Cobbitty, NSW.<br />

Characteristics (Table 30, Figure 39) Seedling habit: semierect.<br />

Plant: facultative long season type, dual purpose<br />

suitable for grazing and grain. Stem: medium height,<br />

hairiness of neck very weak to weak. Leaf and leaf sheaths:<br />

frequency of plants with recurved leaves low, flag leaf<br />

anthocyanin medium, glaucosity of sheath medium.<br />

Inflorescence: emergence medium, glaucosity of ear<br />

medium, fully awned, length of awns very long, length of<br />

first beak long, lower glume hairiness present, ear colour<br />

white. Seed: grain colouration with phenol nil or very light.<br />

Disease resistance: resistant to wheat stem rust, Puccinia<br />

graminis f.sp. tritici pathotype 34-2,<strong>12</strong>,13, resistant to<br />

wheat stem rust, P. recondita f.sp. tritici pathotype 104 –<br />

1,2,3,(6),(7), 11, resistant to wheat stripe rust, P. striiformis<br />

f.sp. tritici pathotype 110 E143A+.<br />

Origin and Breeding Controlled pollination: seed parent<br />

‘rht3 Hungarian triticale x pollen parent ‘Ningadhu’. The<br />

seed parent is characterised as dwarf, winter type. The<br />

pollen parent is characterised as rust resistant, acid soil<br />

tolerant and spring type. Hybridisation took place at the<br />

University of Sydney, <strong>Australia</strong> in 1976. Individual plant<br />

selections were made in the F 2 and F 3 generations, and one<br />

selection was identified as a dual purpose cultivar in the<br />

F 5 /F 6 generation based on grazing potential and grain<br />

recovery. Due to lack of uniformity, this line was not<br />

released, but an unselected bulk was later released as the<br />

cultivar ‘Madonna’. A shorter reselection was made in 1989<br />

at Narrabri, NSW, which subsequently became the cultivar<br />

‘Maiden’. Selection criteria: high bio-mass production for<br />

grazing, good grain recovery after grazing, and long season<br />

line suitable for early sowing in Mar-Apr in the southern<br />

high rainfall areas of NSW. Propagation: seed. Breeders: N<br />

L Darvey, Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, University of<br />

Sydney, <strong>Australia</strong>.<br />

Choice of Comparators ‘Madonna’ and ‘Empat’ were<br />

included as these are the only dual purpose long season<br />

triticales of common knowledge. ‘Abacus’, ‘Tahara’ and<br />

‘Muir’ are spring triticales, and were therefore excluded<br />

from the trial. The parents were not considered as the seed<br />

parent is clearly distinguishable being a dwarf cereal, and<br />

the pollen parent being a spring triticale.<br />

Comparative Trial Comparators: ‘Madonna’, ‘Empat’.<br />

Location: University of Sydney, Plant Breeding Institute,<br />

Cobbitty, NSW (latitude 34º01´, longitude 150º40´, altitude<br />

75m), winter-spring 1998. Conditions: hand sown trial<br />

plots, sown into fertilized drilled (Starter 15) rows, preemergent<br />

herbicide Glean applied immediately after sowing<br />

at rate of 20 g/ha, irrigated as needed, with representative<br />

seasonal conditions. Trial design: randomised complete<br />

block of 4m x 5 row plots with 3 replicates, 30cm row<br />

spacing. Measurements: 25 randomly selected plants per<br />

plot.<br />

Description: Jeremy Roake, University of Sydney, Plant Breeding<br />

Institute, Cobbitty, NSW.<br />

Table 30 xTriticosecale varieties<br />

PLOIDY<br />

‘Maiden’ ‘Madonna’ ‘Empat’<br />

hexaploid hexaploid hexaploid<br />

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