Red clover BONUS (ORG) LT-EKO-001

Produced in Lithuania

The early/mid early diploid clover resistant to diseases and lodging, the winner of Swiss trials

• High green mass yield
• Rapid spring growth
• Good lodging resistance
• Very good health
• Medium good resistance to clover rot
• Persistence for 3 years

• High yields of green and dry mass in all growing years
• Good seed yields
• Stem – of medium length and medium thickness
• Leaves – of medium length and width
• Flowers (heads) should be red in colour, the colour intensity may change during flowering
• Possible appearance of white flowers
• Very good persistence – three vegetative years
• Fast spring growth, moderately fast regrowth after cutting
• Good resistance to lodging
• Very good resistance to fungal root diseases, powdery mildew, a complex of viral diseases
• Medium/high resistance to clover cancer, or rot, (Sclerotinia trifolium), a complex of leaf diseases
• Seeds – variously coloured
• Possible seed yield – 400-500 kg/ha
• Seeds are harvested in the second year of growth from the second cut

• Green mass yield in the second year of cultivation – 108.2 %
• Green mass yield in the third year of cultivation – 108.8 %
• Dry mass yield in the second year of cultivation – 105.3 %
• Dry mass yield in the third year of cultivation – 107.8 %

*Yields in official variety tests in the Czech Republic (control variety is 100 %) in 2005-2007

• Yield – 5.0 points
• Germination speed – 3.5 points
• Competitiveness – 5.2 points
• Persistence – 5.6 points
• Winter hardiness – 5.5 points
• Susceptibility to leaf diseases – 2.8 points
• Susceptibility to anthracnose – 1.3 points

*According to French research (published in: Recherche Agronomique Suisse 8 (1): 2017 p. 3)

• Yield – 5.0 points (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or bad)
• General impression – 3.5 points (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or bad)
• Initial growth – 3.5 points (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or poor)
• Competitiveness – 5.2 points (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or bad)
• Persistence/longevity – 5.6 points (1 being very high or good; 9 being very low or bad)
• Winter hardiness – 5.5 points (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or bad)
• Resistance to Anthracnose – 1.3 points (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or poor)
• Resistance to foliar diseases – 2.8 points (1 being very high or good; 9 being very low or poor)
• Overall score – 3.98 (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or bad)

*according to studies in Germany in 2011-2013 (Ergebnisse der Ertragserhebungen und Bonitierungen in den Jahren 2011 bis 2013) (Agrarforschung Schweiz 5 (7-8): 272-279, 2014)

• Yield – 5.7 points (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or bad)
• General impression – 3.4 points (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or bad)
• Initial growth – 3.2 (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or poor)
• Competitiveness – 4.8 points (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or bad)
• Persistence/longevity – 5.2 points (1 being very high or good; 9 being very low or bad)
• Winter hardiness – 3.6 points (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or bad)
• Resistance to Anthracnose – 2.6 points (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or poor)
• Resistance to foliar diseases – 2.6 points (1 being very high or good; 9 being very low or poor)
• Overall score – 3.89 (where 1 is very high or good; 9 is very low or bad)

*according to research in Germany: Trifolium pratense: Results of measurements and observations from 2016-2018.

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam