The inheritance of the cold induction response with respect to floral initiation in white clover (Trifolium repensL.)
✍ Scribed by I. B. Norris
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 473 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-2336
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✦ Synopsis
The inheritance of the cold induction response in the UK cultivar of white clover Menna, was assessed in controlled environments .
Only 50% of the population flowered without prior cold induction . The cold period increased the number of stolons which became reproductive .
All families from the crosses between induction and non-induction requiring genotypes produced progeny lacking a cold requirement for flowering .
Heritability estimates for the number of flowers per plant, reproductive buds per stolon and stolon number were high .
The necessity of eliminating the cold induction requirement in potentially valuable white clover cultivars in relation to seed production at lower latitudes is discussed .