Abstract
HPHIS paper reports results of 3 years of inbreeding work -*• with red clover to investigate the feasibility of developing inbred lines and selecting among and within them. Many early workers believed red clover was practically self-sterile. However, Fergus (1) The classical work of R. D. Williams, several excellent papers on red clover dur (4, 5, and others), showed that self sterili was conditioned by a series of 30 or mo alleles. Another allele in the series designa a plant completely self-fertile when the 5 { homozygous condition. Moreover plants w genetic makeup for self sterility sometimes seeds when bagged, especially if rolled in stage. Williams and his co-workers demons in the species and carried out rather ex studies establishing several linkage groups.

Kirk (2) in 1925 obtained results simi Fergus. In the summer of 1923 he bagged 4 on a separate plant and obtained 1,334 seed of 3.2 seeds per plant. In the progeny he fou deficient seedlings, and the plants which sur vigorous and less variable than open-pollina .same varieties. Both Kirk and Fergus foun heads must be rolled between the fingers to tion. Kirk suggested the application of bre for red clover similar to those employed for

The classical work of R. D. Williams, several excellent papers on red clover dur (4, 5, and others), showed that self sterili was conditioned by a series of 30 or mo alleles. Another allele in the series designa a plant completely self-fertile when the 5 { homozygous condition. Moreover plants w genetic makeup for self sterility sometimes seeds when bagged, especially if rolled in stage. Williams and his co-workers demons in the species and carried out rather ex studies establishing several linkage groups.

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