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It also has greater resistance to the important diseases anthracnose, Stemphylium leaf spot, and common leaf spot, than do varieties presently grown in the mid-Atlantic area. The forage yields of Team were similar or superior to 5 those of DuPuits, Williamsburg, Cherokee, and Vernal Feeding trials indicate Team is similar to presently grown varieties in intake and digestibility.
Team is adapted to most of the Virginia-Maryland North Carolina area and is currently being tested further in Virginia Adaptation outside this area is being determined. Selection for Team was begun in 1957 at Raleigh, North Carolina, where 66 plants were chosen for low weevil larval damage. More than 'h of the 66 selected plants were from polycrosses of North Carolina selected clones tracing to polycrosses and synthetics obtained from Kansas and Nebraska in 1946 The other plants trace to Narragansett, Atlantic, Rhizoma, and DuPuits Four of the 6 cycles or generations of selection were conducted in the field two each in North Carolina and Maryland. The fifth and sixth cycles of weevil selection were conducted in the laboratory at BeltsviUe, Maryland. From 2,500 to 50,000 plants were evaluated in each cycle.
Foundation seed has been released to seedsmen and a limited amount of Certified seed should be available to Virginia farmers for planting in the spring of 1970.
Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
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