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New Romanian cultivars of alfalfa developed at NARDI Fundulea.

2007; Issue: 24 Linguagem: Inglês

2067-5720

Maria Schitea, P. Varga, T. Martura, E. Petcu, A. Dihoru,

Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management

This paper presents 4 new cultivars of alfalfa (Sandra, Cosmina, Adin and Carina) which have been registered during the last 4 years (2003-2006) as result of selection for high fodder and seed yield, quality and adaptability to various environmental conditions. They are synthetic cultivars obtained by recombination of foreign and Romanian germplasm. These cultivars are characterized by rapid growth in the spring, faster regrowth after cutting, good resistance to common diseases spread in Romania and a very good level of winter hardiness. All these cultivars performed very well under irrigation and nonirrigation conditions. Three years data, across six locations, showed that the new cultivars are better than check variety Selena for fodder nutritive value, while Adin and Carina also had significantly higher seed yields.