| 12. Discovery and use, at the University of Manitoba in 1961, of a dwarf mutant in
a field plot of Petkus winter rye. 13. Visit to the U.S.S.R. in the fall of 1961, enabling B.C. JENKINS to meet Dr. V. PISSAREV and obtain a highly fertile hexaploid Triticale from the cross of Triticum persicum x rye. 14. Unplanned combination in a greenhouse at the University of Manitoba during the winter of 1961-62 of the fertile Triticale from the U.S.S.R. with a new amphiploid involving the dwarf Petkus and a winter durum wheat. 15. Period of observing the many dwarf wheats from February 15 to April 15, 1964 while B.C. JENKINS acted as Temporary Scientific Aide in the wheat program at the CIANO Station, Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico as guest of the Rockefeller Foundation, firmly establishing the idea that they should be included in any future improvement program with Triticales. 16. Crosses made at CIANO in April, 1964 between semi-dwarf bread wheats and hexaploid Triticales. 17. Appearance in February, 1965 at CIANO of the first semi-dwarf day length insensitive Triticales. 18. Appearance in late March, 1965 at CIANO of exceptional plants in progenies of crosses involving semi-dwarf bread wheat and hexaploid Triticales. 19. Publication* in 1965 by KISS in Hungary, of evidence indicating the superiority of secondary hexaploid Triticales over primary types. 20. Confirmation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada during the summer and fall of 1965 of the superiority of hexaploid Triticale derivatives from the cross of octoploid and hexaploid types. 21. Observation in October, 1965 of the outstanding potential of hexaploid Triticales in high mountain valleys of Mexico. 22. Winter of 1965-66-the most outstanding nursery of Triticales at CIANO ever seen to that date. 23. Confirmation in Salinas, California and Grand Forks, North Dakota during 1967 of the superior potential of secondary hexaploid Triticales. 24. Selection in the spring of 1968 and comparative evaluation of lines during the summer to establish a relationship in California of as much as 50% increase in yield of some Triticales over wheat, barley and primary types produced at an earlier date. |
| * Acta Agr. Hung. XIV: 189-201, 1965. |
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