Abstract
During 1994–2014 perennial grass and legumes wild and semi-natural ecotypes were collected in different geographic locations and regions of Lithuania, Baltic littoral (Latvia), Kaliningrad region (Russia), Precarpathian, Carpathian, Zacarpathian and Polese regions (Ukraine). Altogether about 2500 seed accessions of 32 species of grasses and 18 species of legumes were collected.
On the basis of most promising wild ecotypes, the following forage type varieties of grasses and legumes have been developed: smooth-stalked meadow grass (Poa pratensis L.) ʻRusnėʼ, black medic (Medicago lupulina L.) ʻArkaʼ, meadow foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis L.) ʻValentasʼ, redtop (Agrostis gigantea Roth.) ʻVioletaʼ, reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) ʻPievys DSʼ. For the development of forage-type varieties of some species, such as timothy, ryegrass and meadow fescue, wild ecotypes were in most cases insufficiently luxuriant. About 3% of the forage-type plants of perennial grasses exhibited resistance to foliar diseases.
According to a complex of valuable agro morphological characteristics, small part (about 1.5%) of the wild ecotypes of various species were found to be promising for the application in turf grass breeding. Some turf grass varieties have been developed on the basis of the most valuable wild ecotypes: Canada bluegrass (Poa compressa L.) ʻOdrė DSʼ, wood bluegrass (Poa nemoralis L.) ʻLuka DSʼ, red fescue (Festuca rubra L.) ʻGludasʼ, ʻVariusʼ and ʻAlkasʼ, hard fescue (Festuca trachyphylla (Hack.) Krajina) ʻAstravasʼ.
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This study as partly funded through the long-term research program “Genetics and purposeful change of genotypes of agricultural and forest plants” implemented by the Institute of Agriculture, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry.
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Lemežienė, N., Stukonis, V., Kemešytė, V., Norkevičienė, E. (2018). Wild and Semi Natural Ecotypes of Perennial Grasses and Legumes – for Breeding Purposes. In: Brazauskas, G., Statkevičiūtė, G., Jonavičienė, K. (eds) Breeding Grasses and Protein Crops in the Era of Genomics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89578-9_16
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