Details for: PI 657906, Corylus avellana L., 'McDonald'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Corylus avellana L.
Cultivar:
'McDonald'
Origin:
Donated – Oregon, United States
Received by NPGS:
17 Feb 2005
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Corylus avellana L.
Cultivar:
'McDonald'
Origin:
Donated – Oregon, United States
Received by NPGS:
17 Feb 2005
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
Source History
Donated
17 February 2009.
Oregon, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'McDonald'
Type: Cultivar name

OSU 880.027
Type: Developer identifier

CCOR 905
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

HAZELNUT
Type: Site identifier
Group: CROPTYPE

Narrative
A new variety of disease-resistant hazelnut aimed at the kernel market has been released by Oregon State University. The cultivar, McDonald, was found to be "consistently productive with consistent quality" by a farmers? advisory committee that evaluated the trees. OSU breeder Shawn Mehlenbacher announced the new variety at the annual meeting of the Nut Growers' Society in Portland, Ore., on Jan. 29. While the cultivar has "not excellent yield, but good enough," the kernel fills nearly 51 percent of the shell, which is a high proportion compared to other cultivars, Mehlenbacher said. "More of what you harvest is edible," he said. For example, the Jefferson variety that is popular among Northwest growers produces nuts that fill roughly 43 percent of the shell. McDonald also has a lower incidence of mold than Jefferson - 1 percent versus 4-5 percent, he said. The size of McDonald trees is "grower friendly" at about 70 percent of Barcelona, a traditional industry staple. The new variety's nuts also mature about two weeks earlier. The cultivar is named after Peter McDonald, a hazelnut grower from Wilsonville, Ore., who died last year. "I hope the new release lives up to the name of the man for which it's named, otherwise I'm in trouble," Mehlenbacher told the audience. McDonald was instrumental in funding the breeder position at OSU and kept hope alive when Eastern Filbert Blight, a fungal pathogen, threatened hazelnut production in Oregon. "We went through some dark years, not sure the industry would survive, and he pushed for a brighter future," Mehlenbacher told Capital Press. The McDonald cultivar is meant to supply the kernel market, which uses the nuts for chocolates and similar confectionary products. Currently, roughly half the kernels consumed in the U.S. come from Turkey, the dominant global hazelnut producer. "There's a wonderful opportunity to replace imports," Mehlenbacher said. While the new cultivar contains a gene that confers resistance to Eastern Filbert Blight, McDonald was recently found to display some symptoms of the disease. Such 'strikes' have been known to occur on previously released resistant varieties, which may indicate the resistance gene isn't completely expressed by some trees. When disease pressure is heavy, growers can expect some cankers associated with the disease to develop. McDonald derives its resistance from Gasaway, a hazelnut variety that has been used in breeding since the late 1970s. More recently, hazelnut selections from Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and Georgia have also been found to withstand EFB and will be used to develop future cultivars. "Eventually we hope to pyramid several resistant genes into single cultivars," Mehlenbacher said. Oregon State University will be seeking a plant patent for the cultivar and will collect a 50 cent royalty per tree sold to Oregon growers. The new cultivar is compatible with Wepster and York, previously released pollinizer varieties. -- Mateusz Perkowski, Capital Press, January 2014.
Corylus avellana L.
Genus:
Corylus
Section:
Corylus
Subsection:
Corylus
Family:
Betulaceae
Subfamily:
Coryloideae
Nomen number:

11643
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:998. 1753
Verified:
08/10/1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Corylus avellana L. f. avellana
Corylus avellana L. var. avellana

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishBarcelona-nuts  1Duke, J. A. 1989. Handbook of Nuts CRC Press.
Englishcobnut  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
EnglishEuropean filbert  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
EnglishEuropean hazel  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishfilbert  1Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Englishgiant filbert  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishhazel  1Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
Englishhazelnut  1Botta, R. 2020. Hazelnut (Corylus spp.) breeding. Adv. Plant Breed. Strateg. Vol. 4 157-219. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23112-5_6.
Frenchavelinier  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchcoudrier  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchnoisetier  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchnoisetier franc as Corylus maxima2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchnoisetier tubuleux as Corylus maxima2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Germangewöhnliche Hasel  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage
GermanHaselnuß  2Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
GermanHaselstrauch  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanLambertnuß as Corylus maxima2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanLambertshasel as Corylus maxima2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italianavellano  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Italiannocciolo  2International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
Italiannocciuola  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Portugueseaveleira  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishavellano  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishavellano de Lambert as Corylus maxima2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedishfilberthassel  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Swedishhassel  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chineseou zhen  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Transliterated Russianleščina  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Transliterated Russianorešnik obyknovennaja  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
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Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
MOLECULARBR259 pigMotif: (TCA)10
F: 5GAAGGATGAATGGAAGTTGGAG3
R: 5GTTTAAGATCGGCTTCGAGAATATCA3		226:229 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARBR270 pigMotif: (CTG)6
F: 5AGCACCTCCTCTGCTTCCTA3
Rp: 5GTTTCCTCCTCTGCTCCAAATG3		97:97 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARBR322 pigMotif: (ACT)7
F: 5TCTCTTCCTTGCCACCTCAG3
R: 5GTTTAAGATGGGGTTCGAGGAGAC3		106:106 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARBR343 pigMotif: (TGC)6
F: 5CAACAGATCCCAGGTTAAAAGG3
R: 5GTTTATGTTTCGGGACTTGGACTTC3		391:397 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARBR414 pigMotif: (AAT)6
F: 5ATCGCATCACGGAAGAGAAG3
R: 5GTTTGACGAGAACCTAGGGATCTATTT3		121:133 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARBR438 pigMotif: (TCA)8
F: 5ATCTCTGCCCCTCTCTCTCTCT3
R: 5GTTTAACTAACACCGTTGCTGATCCT3		194:194 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARBR464 pigMotif: (ATC)7
F: 5GTGCAAACAGTCGCTATCATCT3
R: 5GTTTCGAGGACCCATAAGAGAACATC3		282:282 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARCAC-C008 pigMotif: (AAG)11, (AAG)3
F: 5TTTCCGCAGATAATACAGGG3
R: 5GTTTCCTTTGCTTTGGACCAG3		200:220 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARGB395 pigMotif: (CTC)6
F: 5TGTTATTTTCTCATCTGCGTGG3
R: 5GTTTCTCTGATCGAACCAACCATGT3		373:379 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARGB673 pigMotif: (TCACCA)5
F: 5CAACAATGGGAATGTTGCAG3
R: 5GTTTGGGCCAATAGCAAAAGTTCA3		367:379 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARGB875 pigMotif: (GGA)9
F: 5ATGATGATGAGGAGGAGGAGAA3
R: 5GTTTCAAAATCAGGCATACAGAACCA3		340:351 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARGB949 pigMotif: (TGG)7
F: 5TTTGGAGGGAGACAGTTTGG3
R: 5GTTTGGTTGGCCAAGAATGAGAGA3		156:156 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARGB950 pigMotif: (TGG)7
F: 5GAAGAAGACGAGGAGCACATTT3
R: 5GTTTACTGAGCATTTCCAACCCATAC3		161:164 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available
MOLECULARLG688 67 L9 pigMotif: (TTC)5
F: 5TTGGAGCAATGAGTCGTGTAAG3
R: 5GTTTCGTTTATTTGGGGAATCTCTG3		361:370 Freixas-Coutin et al. 2019CCOR 905 .001 PLNot Available