Details for: PI 554953, Vaccinium hybr., 'Northcountry'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Vaccinium hybr.

Cultivar:

'Northcountry'

Origin:

Developed – Minnesota, United States

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

14 Feb 1990

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Vaccinium hybr.

Cultivar:

'Northcountry'

Origin:

Developed – Minnesota, United States

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

14 Feb 1990

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Developed

1986.
Minnesota, United States
Comment: Cultivar introduced in 1986
Developer(s):

Luby, James, University of Minnesota

Donated

14 February 1990.
Michigan, United States
Comment: Plants received from Hartmann's Plantation Inc to NCGR- Corvallis.
Donor(s):

Hartmann, Daniel P., Hartmann's Plant Company

Accession Group(s)

Group name: VACCINIUM: Halfhigh
Note: Lower growing cold hardy blueberries that are a combination of highbush and lowbush species
To search for accessions in this group, click the following link. VACCINIUM: Halfhigh

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Northcountry'

Type: Cultivar name

Group: HALFHIGH

J. Luby, D. Wildung, C. Stushnoff, S. Munson, P. Read and E. Hoover cultivar release introduced in 1986

Luby, James University of Minnesota

MN350

Type: Developer identifier

Group: OTHERNUM

other identifier

CVAC 710

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

Narrative

Fruit: average weight 0.8 g; soft; scar small; flavor similar to V. angustifolium. Cold hardy and productive. Intermediate between highbush and lowbush in many characters. - Brooks and Olmo Register of Fruit and Nut Varieties. 1997. ASHS Press. p. 184.Northcountry (MN350) is a half-high blueberry developed by the University of Minnesota fruit breeding program. This cultivar is a sibling of Northsky. 'Northcountry' is similar to 'Northsky' in many fruit characteristics, but plants are larger and more productive. Fruit of 'Northcountry' is medium sized (1/2 inch, 1.25cm), has a waxy bloom and appears sky-blue. Flavor is sweet and mild, typical of V. angustifolium. Quality of processed fruit is good. Mature plants are 18 to 25 inches high and 30 to 40 inches in spread. (45 cm to 60 cm high, 900 cm to 1 meter in spread.) Plants tolerate temperatures as low as - 35 F with little injury. Productivity ranges from 2 to 5 pounds of fruit per plant. Under optimum conditions, 8 year old plants can produce 7 pounds of fruit. The ripening period extends for 2 to 3 weeks. (1986 Minnesota Experiment Station Factsheet)

J. Luby, D. Wildung, C. Stushnoff, S. Munson, P. Read and E. Hoover cultivar release introduced in 1986

Cultivar Synonym= Tested as MN 350

WHY NAMED= High quality, cold hardy cultivar

NAMED FOR= North Country - term refers to Minnesota and northern states

Vaccinium hybr.

Genus:

Vaccinium

Family:

Ericaceae

Subfamily:

Vaccinioideae

Tribe:

Vaccinieae

Nomen number:

315258

Comment:

interim designation used in GRIN for Vaccinium hybrids which lack an acceptable binomial

Verified:

10/05/1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Common names

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Inventory	Availability
CYTOLOGIC	DNA Ratio	Flow cytometry measurement of the ratio of the amount of sample DNA to the amount of DNA in a standard plant	1.49	2012.6.30.CYTOLOGY	CVAC 710 .001 PL	Not Available
CYTOLOGIC	Ploidy	Number of sets of chromosomes. Example: 2x	4x	2012.6.30.CYTOLOGY	CVAC 710 .001 PL	Not Available
CYTOLOGIC	Ploidy Equation	Equation of the ploidy of the plant. Example 2n = 2x = YY	2n = 4x = 48,,	2012.6.30.CYTOLOGY	CVAC 710 .001 PL	Not Available
GENSTOCK	VACCINIUM CORE SUBSET	A flag to indicate the accession is part of the core subset	YES	VACCINIUM.CORE.1998		Not Available
PHYSIOLOGY	Mineral and soil adaptation indices	Mineral and soil adaptation indices of Vaccinium cultivars and interspecific hybrids.	6.5	Scheerens, Erb, Goulart, Hancock 1999 Mineral Soil		Not Available

Genotype Data

Poly Type	Marker	Value	Evaluation	Study Type	Inventory
MICROSATELLITE	CA23a	157:160	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	CA23a	157:160	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITE	GVC-C179a	212:221	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	GVC-C179a	212:221	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITE	KAN-262a	246:260	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	KAN-262a	246:260	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITE	NA172a	304	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	NA172a	304	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITE	Pr031818819a	315:319:323	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	Pr031818819a	315:319:323	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITE	VCB_C_04624	100:103:106	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	GVC-C571	120:123	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITE	GVC-V41f03	186:186	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	NA398	231:234:238	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	GVC-C428	251:257	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 710 .001 PL