Description:
Nafice was developed from single plants selected from segregating material provided by the International Centre for Agriculture in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria. The initial cross was made at Tel Hadya, Syria in 1994. The pedigree is X94TH8/ FLIP86-6//FLIP90-109. Single plants were initially selected from F5 segregating populations sown in field plots in Turkey in 1998 and Western Australia in 2000 based on ascochyta resistance, uniformity, flowering time, seed coat color and seed size. Nafice has been evaluated in Turkey and Australia from 1999 to 2005.