New Zealand Journal of
Agricultural Research abstracts
Germplasm
release1
‘GAO153’
turf type strawberry clover (Trifolium
fragiferum L.)
W. Rumball
R. B. Claydon
AgResearch Grasslands
Private Bag 11 008
Palmerston North, New Zealand
bill.rumball@agresearch.co.nz
‘GAO153’ strawberry clover (Trifolium
fragiferum L.) was bred to
provide a fine, dense, leguminous groundcover that requires very low
maintenance in the form of mowing or nitrogen fertiliser. A cultivar
(‘Fresa’) of the same species was released in the United States for a
similar purpose in 1982 (Baltensperger et al. 1982), but ‘GAO153’ was
selected largely from plants collected and screened in New Zealand, and
is intended for use in this country. There are at present no such
legumes designed for low maintenance groundcover in New Zealand,
although pasture cultivars of white clover are occasionally used for
this purpose.
Keywords germplasm;
strawberry clover; Trifolium
fragiferum; turf
1Each germplasm is the product
of a completed or significant breeding programme, but the breeders are
not seeking Plant Variety Rights. Germplasms are available free as
“concept cultivars”, intended as research materials or for further
localised breeding projects. Request for seed should be made to the
corresponding author. Germplasm releases are not fully refereed.
A05031; Received 1 July 2005; accepted 12 July 2005; Online
publication
date 13 September 2005
New Zealand Journal of
Agricultural Research, 2005, Vol. 48:
421–422
0028–8233/05/4804–0421 © The Royal Society of New
Zealand 2005
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