Table 1.
The white clover, T. uniflorum and T. repens × T. uniflorum BC1 entries used in the experiment. Each BC1 entry was made up of two family bulks with different F1 parents (80-2 and 900-4). The background of the backcross and F1 parents is shown
| Notes | Backcross parent |
F1 parentage |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| ♀ | ♀ | ♂ | ||
| Grasslands ‘Kopu II’1 | Large leaf type | |||
| ‘Crusader’1 | Medium leaf type | |||
| AZ43822 | Greek origin | |||
| AZ43832 | Turkish origin | |||
| Kopu II BC1 | Kopu II × 80-2 | ‘Kopu II’ | Kopu II-23 | T66-64 |
| Kopu II × 900-4 | ‘Kopu II’ | Kopu II-23 | AZ4383-115 | |
| Crusader BC1 | Crusader × 80-2 | ‘Crusader’ | Kopu II-23 | T66-64 |
| Crusader × 900-4 | ‘Crusader’ | Kopu II-23 | AZ4383-115 | |
1White clover cultivar.
2T. uniflorum accession number (Margot Forde Forage Germplasm Center, New Zealand), seed from open pollinated plants.
3Specific genotype of ‘Kopu II’ used as maternal F1 parent.
4Specific genotype of AZ4382 used as paternal F1 parent.
5Specific genotype of AZ4383 used as paternal F1 parent.