Description:
During development of R21, rhizomania resistant plants from C26 and C27 were selected from field trials and increased by open-pollination. Seed was collected in bulk and planted in the next year’s field trials. Four rounds of recurrent selection were conducted in fields in Salinas, CA, selecting plants with resistance to the wild-type (Type A) and Rz1 resistance-breaking (Type-A, IV) strains of BNYVV. The final round of recurrent selection and increase produced R21.