Volume 30 Number 3 Article 8 Pages: 93-93
Year 1976 Month 7
Title: Malling 27 Released for Propagation
Author: R.F. Carlson
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Abstract:
The following release from R.L. Knight of the National Seed Development Organization, Cambridge, England, was received February 23, 1976.
American orchardists interested in using the dwarfing rootstock Malling 27 will be pleased to learn that arrangements have been made to multiply and distribute the EMLA clone of M.27. It promises to be of use both as a rootstock and as an interstem, and will be of value to orchardists wishing to increase their planting densities beyong those made possible by the use of M.9. M27 may have potential use a a rootstock for patio trees.
The National Seed Development Organization Ltd. (NSDO) of Cambridge, England has been granted a US Plant Patent for this more dwarfing rootstock.
East Malling has completed the testing of the virus free EMLA clone of M.27 and an agency agreement has been made between NSDO and Oregon Rootstock Inc.
Sherwood, Oregon, for increase and distribution to Experiment Stations and nurseries in the USA.
After the introduction of PLant Breeders Rights in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, the NSDO was set up in 1967 to market all crop varieties bred at state-aided plant breeding stations in the United Kingdom.
This Organization iss responsible for a very wide range of crops including cereals, forage grasses, vegetables, soft fruit, tree fruit and rootstocks.
It is expected that all new East Malling varieties will be introduced with the protection of Breeders Rights or Plant Patents and that this, plus commerciallyt effective agency agreements, will ensure that stocks are built up, as rapidly as strigent health standards will permit, to meet the fruit industry's requirements.
The propagators at the Oregon Rootstock Inc. will increase the EMLA M.27 as rapidly as possible and make rooted plants available tot REsearch Stations for testing with commercial varieties and under varying orchard conditions.
It is estimated that five years will elpase before any quantities of trees on M.27 will be available for commercial fruit production.
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