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Title:   Author  item
                                            Riday, Heathcliffe
  Submitted to: Trifolium Conference Abstract & Proceedings
                                    Publication Type: Abstract Only
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 6/1/2008
                                    Publication  Date: 6/1/2008
                                    Citation: Riday, H. 2008. Restricting gametophytic self-incompatibility alleles in red clover (Trifolium pratense) to increase hybridity. Trifolium Conference Abstract & Proceedings. 41st North American Alfalfa Improvement Conference & 20th Trifolium Conference, June 1-4, 2008, Dallas, Texas. Poster Number 17.Interpretive Summary:
                                Technical Abstract: Red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) is a widely grown forage legume harvested for hay or silage, grown in pastures for grazing, and sown as a companion or trap crop.  Current breeding methods in red clover for quantitative traits such as biomass yield consist almost entirely of recurrent phenotypic selection (i.e. repeated cycles of mass selection).  In many species improved cultivars have been achieved through hybrid breeding methods, especially for highly non-additive traits.  In red clover, hybrid methods using pseudo-self-compatibility have been studied and developed.  Inbreeding depression was a major detriment to the utility of this breeding system.  Population hybrids or hybridization of two heterotic randomly mated populations have been proposed as a way to achieve 50% hybrid seed while eliminating problems associated with inbreeding.  A novel approach to achieving greater levels of population hybrid seed is through the restriction of the number of S-alleles per heterotic population.  Theoretically, 75% hybrid seed can be achieved in a population cross by restricting each heterotic population to have three unique S-alleles.  To demonstrate the feasibility of such a scheme, S-allele restricted populations were created using backcrossing.  Equal numbers of S-allele restricted individuals and check individuals from an unrestricted population were placed in a pollination cage.  Halfsib seed was produced from each plant.  DNA markers were used to determine if progeny were within-population or population-hybrid individuals.  Percent hybrid progeny was compared to theoretical expectation for S-allele restricted and unrestricted populations. As hypothesized, 75% hybrid seed was produced in the restricted population and 48% hybrid seed was produced in the unrestricted population.  Restriction of populations to three S-alleles is a feasible way to increase hybrid seed production.


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