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Title:   Author  item
                                            Vogel, Kennethitem
                                            Mitchell, Robert

                                                         - *Rob*item
                                            BALTENSPERGER, D - University Of Nebraskaitem
                                            JOHNSON, K - Purdue Universityitem
                                            CARLSON, I - Iowa State University
  Submitted to: Journal of Plant Registrations
                                    Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 12/10/2009
                                    Publication  Date: 4/19/2010
                                    Citation: Vogel, K.P., Mitchell, R.B., Baltensperger, D.D., Johnson, K.D., Carlson, I.T. 2010. Registration of 'Homestead' Canada Wildrye. Journal of Crop Registrations. 4:123-126.Interpretive Summary: The Canada wildrye cultivar, Homestead, was  developed cooperatively by USDA-ARS and the University of Nebraska and was released in 2008 for use in the Great Plains and the Midwest USA. Canada wildrye  (Elymus canadensis) is a cool-season grass that is native to the grasslands of North America.  It was developed using the Ecotype Selection Breeding System from a collection made in a remnant prairie in Eastern Nebraska USA.  Homestead is adapted to the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5 of the tallgrass prairie ecoregion of the Midwest, USA. When grown in its area of adaptation, it produces more forage than the previously available cultivar of the species and its forage has higher in vitro dry matter digestibility than another adapted experimental strain to which it was compared in sward forage yield trials. Its primary use will be as a native cool-season grass component of conservation, roadside, and grassland seeding mixtures.
                                Technical Abstract: ‘Homestead’ ( PI 655522) Canada wildrye (Elymus canadensis L.) was  developed cooperatively by USDA-ARS and the University of Nebraska and was released in 2008 for use in the Great Plains and the Midwest USA.  It was developed using the Ecotype Selection Breeding System from a collection made in a remnant prairie in Eastern Nebraska USA.  Homestead is adapted to Plant Adaptation Region (PAR) 251-5 (Temperate Prairie Parkland - Plant Hardiness Zone 5) which is its origin and in which it has been evaluated in both space-transplanted and sward trials.  This region is equivalent to USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5 of the tallgrass prairie ecoregion of the Midwest, USA. When grown in its area of adaptation, it produces more forage than the previously available cultivar of the species and its forage has higher in vitro dry matter digestibility than another adapted experimental strain to which it was compared in sward forage yield trials. Its primary use will be as a native cool-season grass component of conservation, roadside, and grassland seeding mixtures.


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