Predicting Seed Yield of Alfalfa Clones

Seeds of varieties with high seed yield potential usually have been less expensive than varieties with low seed yield potential. Therefore, experiments were conducted to determine: (a) whether associations between seed production potential and morphological or physiological plant characteristics exist, and (b) if such associations are of sufficient magnitude to use to identify plants having both desirable forage and seed production potential

Preedicting Seed and Forage Yields of Alfalfa Open Pollinated Progenies

Selecting traits measured in North Central Region nurseries has contributed to agronomically superior cultivars for forage production in the region, but not all of them have the genetic capacity for high seed yield in the western states. Seeds of such cultivars are also more expensive than more prolific cultivars, but both cost efficiency and traits for increased forage and seed yields are desired. That will be possible only if such traits are highly heritable and also are genetically correlated with yield attributes. For those reasons experiments were initiated in 1966 to determine: (a) whether associations between seed production potential and morphological or physiological plant characteristics exist, and (b) if such associations can be used to identify plants with both forage and seed production potentials

Characteristics of proteins from normal, high lysine, and high tannin sorghums

The purpose of this paper was to study the characterirtics of proteins from normal, high lysine, and high tannin Sorghum bicolor (I,.) Moench. Endosperm preparations were otltained from four inbred lines of sorghum representing a normal, low tannin variety (P-721-N), its mutagenically derived high lysine counterpart (P-721-O), an inbred Ethiopian variety high in lysine (IS-11167), and a high tannin line (IS-4225). Endosperm proteins were separated into five soluble fractions by the Landry Moureaux method