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Potential of Unreduced Pollen for Breeding Tetraploid Perennial Ryegrass

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Sexual Reproduction in Higher Plants

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Tetraploid cultivars of perennial ryegrass are slowly gaining popularity for fodder and pasture in north-western Europe. Breeding of new cultivars relies on colchicine treatment of young diploid seedlings, selection of tetraploid non-chimaeric individuals, intercrossing, evaluation, and finally selection of half-sib families as a basis for new synthetics.

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  1. A. G. Stephenson

    Present address: Dept. of Biology, Penn. State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, USA

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  1. Foundation for Agricultural Plant Breeding (SVP), POB 117, 6700 AC, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    A. P. M. den Nijs & A. G. Stephenson

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  1. Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via P. A. Mattioli n.4, Siena, 53100, Italy

    Mauro Cresti , Paolo Gori  & Ettore Pacini ,  & 

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den Nijs, A.P.M., Stephenson, A.G. (1988). Potential of Unreduced Pollen for Breeding Tetraploid Perennial Ryegrass. In: Cresti, M., Gori, P., Pacini, E. (eds) Sexual Reproduction in Higher Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73271-3_21

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