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Pre-basic seed production of Lotononis
bainesii Baker cv. ‘INIA Glencoe’
D. Real*
National Agricultural Research
Institute
INIA Tacuarembó
Ruta 5 km 386
Tacuarembó, Uruguay
F. Formoso
A. Martinez
I. Risso
W. Hugo
C. Rostan
R. Alzugaray
National Agricultural Research
Institute
INIA La Estancuela
Ruta 50 km 11
Colonia, Uruguay
*Present address: CRC for
Plant Based Management of Dryland Salinity, The University of Western
Australia, Field Station, 1 Underwood Avenue, Shenton Park, Perth,
Western Australia 6008, Australia. dreal@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Abstract The
methodology of a spaced plant seed increase nursery to produce
pre-basic seed of the subtropical forage legume Lotononis
bainesii Baker cv. ‘INIA
Glencoe’ is presented. Twenty grams of nucleus seed were grown for
2 months in a glasshouse in a forestry nursery. The best
30 000 plants were transplanted in September 2002 in a
1 × 1 m grid to a seed increase area at
Glencoe research station of INIA Tacuarembó,
Uruguay. After one multiplication cycle, 104.8 kg of seed was
produced giving a multiplication rate of 5240 times and a saving in
time of at least 3 years in the seed multiplication process.
Keywords Lotononis
bainesii; pre-basic seed; seed
production; seed processing
A04093; Received 2 November
2004; accepted 7 June 2005; Online publication date 8 August 2005
New Zealand Journal of
Agricultural Research, 2005, Vol. 48:
377–379
0028–8233/05/4803–0377 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2005
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