The use of agar tube culture for early selection for nodulation ofDesmodium intortum

✍ Scribed by B. C. Imrie

• Book ID: 104634756
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 371 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0014-2336
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00132899

✦ Synopsis

Nodulation and seedling growth of Desmodium intortum in agar tube culture and at two field sites in southeast Queensland were studied. Nodulation of lines grown on agar was reproduceable and a response to selection was obtained. Nodulation in the field was variable with a lack of correlation between sites and between years. The correlation between nodulation on agar and nodulation and seedling growth in the field differed between sites and was too low to allow selection in the laboratory to be used for the improvement of nodulation in the field.