1. Magnum III-Wet is a 25 clone synthetic variety. Parent plants were selected out of forage yield plots and/or disease nurseries. Parent plants trace back through several intermediate steps to Magnum III, Magnum, and Webfoot. The percent of germplasm sources are M. falcata (7), Ladak (10), M.varia (40), Turkistan (8) and Flemish (35).
2. Magnum Ill-Wet is adapted to and intended for use in the North Central United States for hay, haylage, greenchop, and dehydration. The states where it has been tested are Wisconsin and Illinois.
3. Magnum Ill-Wet is dormant and similar to the variety Ranger. Flower color in the Syn. 2 generation is 88% purple, 12% variegated, with trace amounts of cream, white and yellow.
4. Magnum Ill-Wet has high resistance to pea aphid, resistance to Fusarium wilt, Phytophthora root rot, bacterial wilt, moderate resistance to anthracnose (Race 1), Verticillium wilt, Aphanomyces root rot (Race 1), blue alfalfa aphid, spotted alfalfa aphid, stem nematode and northern root knot nematode(M.hapla).
5. Breeder seed was produced from cuttings of the parental plants in an isolation block as Syn. 1 in Sloughhouse, CA. Seed lots will be kept separate. Foundation seed (Syn. 2) will be produced from Breeder seed and Certified seed (Syn. 2 or 3) from either Breeder or Foundation seed. One generation each of Breeder and Foundation and two generations of Certified seed (Syn. 2 or 3) classes are recognized. A maximum of three years each is permitted on stands producing Breeder and Foundation seed with five years for Certified seed. Sufficient Foundation seed for the projected life of the variety will be maintained by Dairyland Research.
6. Certified seed will be available spring of 1991.
7. Application for the Plant Variety Protection is undecided.
8. As a means of additional varietal protection, information included with this application may be provided to the PVP office.
November 23. 1993