Description:
During development of R40, rhizomania resistant plants from a composite of C79-1 through C79-11 were selected from field trials and increased by open-pollination. Seed was collected in bulk and planted in the next year’s field trials. Three rounds of recurrent selection were performed on this germplasm, 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 R40.