Details for: PI 509067, Medicago sativa L. subsp. sativa, 'COMMANDOR'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Medicago sativa L. subsp. sativa

Cultivar:

'COMMANDOR'

Origin:

Developed – United States

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

15 May 1987

PI Assigned:

1987

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:

196
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	100 count		PI 509067 89i 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:

'COMMANDOR'

Origin:

Developed – United States

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

15 May 1987

PI Assigned:

1987

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Reproductive Uniformity:

Population

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Developed

01 December 1985.
United States

Developer(s):

Accession Names and Identifiers

'COMMANDOR'

Type: Cultivar name

82503

Type: Developer identifier

CV-147

Type: Other or unclassified name

Crop Science Society of America Crop Registration Number

Narrative

Fall dormancy similar to Saranac. Flower color 75% purple and 24% variegated with less than 1% yellow and white flowers. High resistance to anthracnose; resistance to Phytophthora root rot, bacterial wilt and Fusarium wilt. Moderate resistance to stem nematode, Verticillium wilt and spotted alfalfa aphid. Reaction to pea aphid is unknown.

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
DISEASE	Anthracnose	Percent of plants resistant to Anthracnose (Colletotrichum trifolii).	32		ALFALFA.ANTHRAC.90.ONEILL	PI 509067 89i SD
DISEASE	Verticillium wilt	Percent of plants resistant to Verticillium wilt (Verticillium albo-atrum).	5		ALFALFA.VERTWILT.90.PEADEN	PI 509067 89i SD
DISEASE	Aphanomyces	Percent resistant plants to Aphanomyces eutieches.	0		ALFALFA.APHAN.90.GRAU	PI 509067 89i SD
DISEASE	Resistance to Rhizoctonia	Percent resistance to Rhizoctonia.	34		ALFALFA.RHIZOC.90.VIAND	PI 509067 89i SD
INSECT	Potato Leafhopper	Percent of plant foliage yellowed by Potato Leafhopper (Empoasca fabae).	4.5		ALFALFA.POTLEAFHOP.94.BYERS	PI 509067 89i SD
INSECT	Clover Root curculio	Percent of plants resistant to Clover Root Curculio (Sitonia hispidulus).	24	3	ALFALFA.ROOTCURC.95.BYERS	PI 509067 89i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Seed weight 100	Weight of 100 seeds in grams.	0.24		ALFALFA.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPIS	PI 509067 89i SD
PRODUCTION	Seed productivity	Seed productivity. coded 1-9.	5 - (1 = HIGH, 9 = LOW)		ALFALFA.SEEDPROD.89.PEADEN	PI 509067 89i SD
STRESS	Salt germination - ic(50) valu	Sodium chloride concentration which inhibits germination of 50% of the viable seed.	-0.57		ALFALFA.SALTGERM.90.RUMB	PI 509067 89i SD
STRESS	Tolerance to salt stress	The ratio of mean regrowth amount under salt stress to that produced under non-stress conditions expressed as a proportion of the ratio for a control cultivar(s).	0.907		ALFALFA.SALTSTRESS.90.SMITH	PI 509067 89i SD