GEOGRAPHIC VARIABILITY SAMPLE USE FOR FODDER CROP SELECTION

V.A. Pozdnyakov¹ and A. I. Drizhachenko²

¹188231 Nothern-Western Agricultural Institute Belogorka Gatthina Leningrad area Russia;

² 196211 S-Petersburg Agrarian University Russia

The N.I.Vavilov Institute and V.R.Williams Fodder Institute fodder crop collection was utilized to synthesized new initial material.  Heterotic hybrids and tetraploid population of alfalfa, clover and xFestulolium were obtained.  Some problems of derivation location samples are discussed.

Keywords: alfalfa hybrids; clover hybrids; red clover tetraploid population; xFestulolium; pathogen resistance.