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Use of Botanical Varieties of Brassica oleracea L. in the Breeding of Forage Kale
At present, forage kale cultivars for feeding cattle and sheep are either open-pollinated ones from population-improvement schemes within suitable botanical varieties of Brassica oleracea or triple-cross hybrids from within or between botanical varieties, the only commercialised latter type being be...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9414890/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36015463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11162160 |
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description | At present, forage kale cultivars for feeding cattle and sheep are either open-pollinated ones from population-improvement schemes within suitable botanical varieties of Brassica oleracea or triple-cross hybrids from within or between botanical varieties, the only commercialised latter type being between marrow-stem kale and Brussels sprouts. Eight botanical varieties (15 cultivars) and 13 types of hybrids (50 hybrids) between them were produced and assessed for forage traits in SE Scotland in the early 1980s when there was government funding in Great Britain for such work (terminated in 1990). These previously unpublished results may now be of interest to a new generation of commercial forage brassica breeders. In addition to height and dry matter yield and content, quality traits, such as digestibility and antimetabolites, were assessed. The hybrids with marrow-stem kale as one parent varied in height, but combined a high-dry-matter yield with desirable quality traits for a forage crop. None was ideal and none had a superior combination of traits to the hybrids with Brussels sprouts. The hybrids between marrow-stem kale and January King cabbage were the shortest and a possible alternative to dwarf thousand-head kale. The results can be used to justify new forage brassica breeding programmes. |
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spelling | pubmed-94148902022-08-27 Use of Botanical Varieties of Brassica oleracea L. in the Breeding of Forage Kale Bradshaw, John E. Plants (Basel) Article At present, forage kale cultivars for feeding cattle and sheep are either open-pollinated ones from population-improvement schemes within suitable botanical varieties of Brassica oleracea or triple-cross hybrids from within or between botanical varieties, the only commercialised latter type being between marrow-stem kale and Brussels sprouts. Eight botanical varieties (15 cultivars) and 13 types of hybrids (50 hybrids) between them were produced and assessed for forage traits in SE Scotland in the early 1980s when there was government funding in Great Britain for such work (terminated in 1990). These previously unpublished results may now be of interest to a new generation of commercial forage brassica breeders. In addition to height and dry matter yield and content, quality traits, such as digestibility and antimetabolites, were assessed. The hybrids with marrow-stem kale as one parent varied in height, but combined a high-dry-matter yield with desirable quality traits for a forage crop. None was ideal and none had a superior combination of traits to the hybrids with Brussels sprouts. The hybrids between marrow-stem kale and January King cabbage were the shortest and a possible alternative to dwarf thousand-head kale. The results can be used to justify new forage brassica breeding programmes. MDPI 2022-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9414890/ /pubmed/36015463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11162160 Text en © 2022 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Bradshaw, John E. Use of Botanical Varieties of Brassica oleracea L. in the Breeding of Forage Kale |
title | Use of Botanical Varieties of Brassica oleracea L. in the Breeding of Forage Kale |
title_full | Use of Botanical Varieties of Brassica oleracea L. in the Breeding of Forage Kale |
title_fullStr | Use of Botanical Varieties of Brassica oleracea L. in the Breeding of Forage Kale |
title_full_unstemmed | Use of Botanical Varieties of Brassica oleracea L. in the Breeding of Forage Kale |
title_short | Use of Botanical Varieties of Brassica oleracea L. in the Breeding of Forage Kale |
title_sort | use of botanical varieties of brassica oleracea l. in the breeding of forage kale |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9414890/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36015463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11162160 |
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