Pre‐basic seed production of Lotononis bainesii Baker cv. ‘INIA Glencoe’

摘要

Abstract The methodology of a spaced plant seed increase nursery to produce pre‐basic seed of the subtropical forage legume Lotononis bainesii Baker cv. ‘INIA Glencoe’ is presented. Twenty grams of nucleus seed were grown for 2 months in a glasshouse in a forestry nursery. The best 30 000 plants were transplanted in September 2002 in a 1 × 1 m grid to a seed increase area at Glencoe research station of INIA Tacuarembó, Uruguay. After one multiplication cycle, 104.8 kg of seed was produced giving a multiplication rate of 5240 times and a saving in time of at least 3 years in the seed multiplication process.