RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Notice of Release of ‘Bannock II’ Thickspike wheatgrass
JF Native Plants Journal
JO NATIVE PLANTS JOURNAL
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 259
OP 264
DO 10.3368/npj.16.3.259
VO 16
IS 3
A1 Joseph G Robins
A1 Kevin B Jensen
A1 B Shaun Bushman
YR 2015
UL http://npj.uwpress.org/content/16/3/259.abstract
AB The USDA Agricultural Research Service announces the cultivar release of ‘Bannock II’ thickspike wheatgrass (Elymus lanceolatus (Scribn. & J.G. Sm.) Gould [Poaceae]). ‘Bannock II’, a 5-clone synthetic, is the result of hybridization among selected genotypes from thickspike wheatgrass cultivars ‘Bannock’ and ‘Schwendimar’ followed by 2 cycles of recurrent selection. The release of ‘Bannock II’ thickspike wheatgrass expands native germplasm available to enhance the success of conservation and revegetation plantings in the Great Basin, Snake River Plain, and Columbia Plateau regions of the Intermountain US. Genetically distinct from ‘Bannock’ and ‘Schwendimar’, ‘Bannock II’ possesses greater seedling establishment and seed production then ‘Bannock’, ‘Critana’, ‘Elbee’, ‘Schwendimar’, and ‘Sodar’.