Details for: PI 206103, Medicago sativa L. subsp. sativa, 'DU PUITS'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Medicago sativa L. subsp. sativa

Cultivar:

'DU PUITS'

Origin:

Donated – France

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

16 Mar 1953

PI Assigned:

1953

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Reproductive Uniformity:

Population

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

161
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	100 count		PI 206103 90i SD

Seed available for distribution is a limited resource. The quantity of seed distributed is hopefully sufficient to conduct the intended research. If additional seed is required, the recipient is urged to grow and reproduce the seed. Repeated requests for seed of the same accession will not be honored.

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Medicago sativa L. subsp. sativa

Cultivar:

'DU PUITS'

Origin:

Donated – France

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

16 Mar 1953

PI Assigned:

1953

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Reproductive Uniformity:

Population

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Donated

16 March 1953.
France
Comment: Developed and released in 1950 by Tourneur Breeding Company, France.
Donor(s):

Groupement National Inteprofessional

Accession Names and Identifiers

'DU PUITS'

Type: Cultivar name

G 6241

Type: Site identifier

Group: GENEVA

Ids used by the North Eastern Plant Intro. Station; N. Y.

Northeast Regional PI Station

Narrative

Evaluations reported to the USDA Forage Research Unit, Beltsville MD (ca 1950s), reflect the extremely wide adaptation of this cultivar. Evaluations from diverse locations within the United States, Europe, including Denmark and Sweden, andUraguay have all noted the superior performance of Du Puitsin cultivar trials.

Medicago sativa L. subspp. sativa

Genus:

Medicago

Section:

Medicago

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Trifolieae

Nomen number:

300359

Verified:

06/10/1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Medicago sativa L. (19 active accession[s])
Medicago sativa L. nothosubsp. tunetana Murb. (7 active accession[s])
Medicago sativa L. nothosubsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang. (437 active accession[s])
Medicago sativa L. subsp. caerulea (Less. ex Ledeb.) Schmalh. (97 active accession[s])
Medicago sativa L. subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. (453 active accession[s])
Medicago sativa L. subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. var. falcata (L.) Döll (0 active accession[s])
Medicago sativa L. subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. var. viscosa (Rchb.) Posp. (15 active accession[s])
Medicago sativa L. subsp. glomerata (Balb.) Rouy (12 active accession[s])
Medicago sativa L. var. sativa (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Medicago agropyretorum Vassilcz.
Medicago asiatica Sinskaya
Medicago mesopotamica Vassilcz.
Medicago praesativa Sinskaya
Medicago rivularis Vassilcz.
Medicago sogdiana Vassilcz.
Medicago transoxana Vassilcz.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	alfalfa	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	lucerne	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	violet-flower lucerne	1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
French	luzerne	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	blaue Luzerne	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Luzerne	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Japanese Rōmaji	murasaki-umagoyashi	2	Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
Portuguese	luzerna	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	mielga	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	blålusern	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese	zi mu xu	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).

Annotations

Nomenclature Name Change: 14 Feb 1994, from Medicago sativa L. to Medicago sativa L. subsp. sativa

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory
INSECT	Potato Leafhopper	Percent of plant foliage yellowed by Potato Leafhopper (Empoasca fabae).	6.3		ALFALFA.POTLEAFHOP.94.BYERS	PI 206103 90i SD
INSECT	Lygus bug	Resistance to lygus bug	3 - 2 LEAVES WILTED		ALFALFA.LYGUSBUG.93.TEUBER	PI 206103 90i SD
INSECT	Clover Root curculio	Percent of plants resistant to Clover Root Curculio (Sitonia hispidulus).	21	5	ALFALFA.ROOTCURC.95.BYERS	PI 206103 90i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Seed weight 100	Weight of 100 seeds in grams.	0.22		ALFALFA.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPIS	PI 206103 90i SD
PRODUCTION	Seed productivity	Seed productivity. coded 1-9.	7 - (1 = HIGH, 9 = LOW)		ALFALFA.SEEDPROD.90.PEADEN	PI 206103 90i SD
STRESS	Acid soil tolerance	Ratio of root dry weight below 1 inch in acid soil to root dry weight below 1 inch in lime soil. Data is compared to an acid tolerant check.	1.03		ALFALFA.ACIDSOIL.92.BOUTON	PI 206103 90i SD