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Details for: PI 490758,
Amaranthus hypochondriacus
L., RRC 1023
Summary
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Taxonomy
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IPR
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Amaranthus hypochondriacus
L.
Top Name:
RRC 1023
Origin:
Collected – Mexico
Maintained:
North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station
Received by NPGS:
May 1984
PI Assigned:
1984
Improvement Status:
Breeding material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Backup Location:
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
Inventory Volume:
192
View original Plant Inventory data in pdf format
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Seed
200 count
PI 490758 93ncai01 SD
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(5
total. Click on image for more.)
Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Amaranthus hypochondriacus
L.
Top Name:
RRC 1023
Origin:
Collected – Mexico
Maintained:
North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station
Received by NPGS:
May 1984
PI Assigned:
1984
Improvement Status:
Breeding material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Collected
Mexico
Donated
May 1984.
Peru
Comment:
Received through Rodale Research Center, Kutztown, PA
Donor(s):
Sumar K., L., Programa de Investigacion Amaranthus
Accession Names and Identifiers
RRC 1023
Type: Donor identifier
Group: RODALE
Rodale Research Center. RD 1 Box 323 Kutztown PA 19530
Rodale Research Center
LSK 482
Type: Donor identifier
Sumar K. L.
Sumar Kalinowski, Luis Universidad Nacional
RRC 78S-1023
Type: Donor identifier
Group: RODALE
Rodale Research Center. RD 1 Box 323 Kutztown PA 19530
Rodale Research Center
R 101
Type: Institute identifier
Group: RODALE
From the Rodale Research Center (RRC), Pennsylvania
Rodale Research Center
Ames 2220
Type: Site identifier
Group: AMES
NC-7
USDA ARS NCRPIS
Hy031
Type: Other or unclassified name
Used in publications by a research group at the University of Hong Kong. Listed in the Ph. D. thesis by Huaixiang Wu, 1998. Development of grain Amaranthus as a starch crop in China
Corke, Harold University of Hong Kong
Narrative
The seeds are white, flowers green, leaves green. The RRC class type is: mercado. This is the original selection with gold and white-seeds. It is a typical mercado type. Observations from the Rodale Research Center, 1988 Rodale Amaranth Germplasm Catalog. Emmaus, PA.
Amaranthus hypochondriacus
L.
Genus:
Amaranthus
Subgenus:
Amaranthus
Family:
Amaranthaceae
Nomen number:
2796
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:991. 1753 "
hypocondriacus
"
Protologue link:
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/359012
Typification:
View in Linnean Typification Project
Verified:
02/04/2003
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Amaranthus hypochondriacus
var.
hypochondriacus
(0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Amaranthus hybridus
L. var.
hypochondriacus
(L.) B. L. Rob.
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Amaranthus frumentaceus
Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.
Amaranthus hybridus
L. var.
erythrostachys
Moq.
Amaranthus leucocarpus
S. Watson
Amaranthus leucospermus
S. Watson
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
Prince of Wales-feather
1
FNA Editorial Committee.
1993-.
Flora of North America.
English
prince's-feather
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English
prince's-feather amaranth
1
FNA Editorial Committee.
1993-.
Flora of North America.
Chinese
qian sui gu
千穗谷
2
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-.
Flora of China (English edition).
German
Trauer-Fuchsschwanz
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1197.
India
chua
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
India
ramdana
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish
bledo
2
Bayón, N. D.
2015. Revisión taxonómica de las especies monoicas de
Amaranthus
(Amaranthaceae):
Amaranthus
subg.
Amaranthus
y
Amaranthus
subg.
Albersia
. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 101:261-383.
DOI:
10.3417/2010080
.
Spanish (Mexico)
alegría
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish (Mexico)
huantli
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish (Mexico)
quintonil
2
Lira, R. et al., eds.
2016. Ethnobotany of Mexico Springer, New York, US. 114-115.
Swedish
toppamarant
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Name
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Pathogens
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Herbarium specimen
USDA ARS NCRPIS
. Located at NA. Identifier: PI 490758. Inventory sample: PI 490758.
Citations
Blair M.W., J.M. Londoño, M.A. Buitrago-Bitar, X. Wu, & D.M. Brenner.
2023. Differentiation of Andean and Mesoamerican accessions in a proposed core collection of grain amaranths. Front. Plant Sci. 14:1144681.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1144681
.
Note:
The accessions are not listed in the publication but were provided separately by the authors.
Number of accessions cited:
203
Kauffman, Charles S.
1981. Improved grain amaranth varieties and their yields (3-year summary).
Note:
RRC 1023 is on page 18
Number of accessions cited:
0
Park, Young-Jun & T. Nishikawa.
2012. Rapid identification of Amaranthus caudatus and Amaranthus hypochondriacus by sequencing and PCR-RFLP analysis of two starch synthase genes. Genome 55:623-628.
Number of accessions cited:
52
Wu, Xinbo & M. W. Blair.
2017. Diversity in grain amaranths and relatives distinguished by genotyping by sequencing (GBS). Front. Plant Sci. 8:1960.
DOI:
10.3389/fpls.2017.01960
.
Number of accessions cited:
94
Pedigree
Description:
This is the yellow-gold seed version of RRC 1023 selected from RRC 362. It is not a duplicate of PI 477916 which is similar but has white seeds. This yellow seed version is older than the white seed version.
Material Transfer Agreement
Observations
Phenotype Data
Category
Descriptor
Description
Value
Sample Size
Study
Inventory
Availability
CHEMICAL
SEED STARCH TYPE
THE PERCENT OF OPAQUE PERISPERM SEEDS, WHICH STAIN REDISH-BROWN WITH IODINE, OR OBSERVED THROUGH LIGHT COLORED SEED COATS. A LOW PERCENT OPAQUE INDICATES A HIGH PERCENT TRANSLUCENT. REFERENCE: OKUNO AND SAKAGUCHI 1982 HEREDITY 73:467.
100
100
AMARANTH.AMES.1998
PI 490758 93ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY
FLOWER COLOR
FLOWER COLOR
GR - GREEN
AMARANTH.AMES.1991
PI 490758 81ncai01 SD
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FLOWER COLOR
FLOWER COLOR
GR - GREEN
AMARANTH.AMES.1991
PI 490758 88ncai03 SD
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FLOWER COLOR
FLOWER COLOR
GR - GREEN
53
AMARANTH.AMES.1993
PI 490758 81ncao01 SD
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
SEED COLOR
SEED COLOR frequency
WH - WHITE SEED COAT, RHS ORANGE-WHITE 159A (30%)
AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997
PI 490758 93ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY
SEED COLOR
SEED COLOR frequency
YL - YELLOW SEED COAT, DRIES TO RHS GREYED-ORANGE 164B (70%)
AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997
PI 490758 93ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY
SEEDLING COLOR
THE PERCENTAGE OF THE SEEDLING WITH ANY STEM OR LEAF AMARANTHINE (RED COLORING) IN A GIVEN NUMBER OF EVALUATED SEEDLINGS. THIS DISTINGUISHES THE SEEDLINGS WITH AMARANTHINE FROM GREEN AND ORANGE SEEDLINGS. SCORE WITHIN 3 WEEKS AFTER GERM.
100
61
AMARANTH.AMES.1993
PI 490758 81ncao01 SD
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
SEED SHAPE
SEED SHAPE
RB - ROUND, WITH ROUNDED BULGING PERISPERM (100%)
AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997
PI 490758 93ncai01 SD
PRODUCTION
HUNDRED SEED WEIGHT
THE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY.
.071
NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNER
PI 490758 88ncai03 SD
Not Available
PRODUCTION
HUNDRED SEED WEIGHT
THE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY.
.08
NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNER
PI 490758 81ncao01 SD
Not Available
PRODUCTION
HUNDRED SEED WEIGHT
THE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY.
.08
NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNER
PI 490758 93ncai01 SD
PRODUCTION
HUNDRED SEED WEIGHT
THE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY.
.086
NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNER
PI 490758 81ncai01 SD
Not Available
PRODUCTION
HUNDRED SEED WEIGHT
THE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY.
.09
NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNER
PI 490758 84ncpo01 SD
Not Available