Bilensoy-80

Alfalfa

 

Registered Year: 1984

 

The Owner Institute of Variety: Central Research Institute for the Field Crops 

  

Morphological Characters:

Plant height is 85-95 cm. Flower color changes from purple to violet. Flowers are simple racemes shaped. Raceme length is 4,70 cm. It consists of 7-10 pods and  4 or 7 pods of them have seed set. Fruit is spiralled in 2 to 3 turns and sometimes 4. Seeds of form varies in kidney, egs, gloves, heart and half a heart. Seed shape appears a high diversity as kidney, egg, glove, heart and half a heart. Seed color is dark and light tan with dark and light yellow. The color of seed is usually either dark and light brick-red or dark and light yellow. Thousand seed weight ranges from 2,09 to 2,47 gram. 

 

Agricultural Characters:

It is the first synthetic variety  of Turkey. It was improved to plant under the irrigated condition.  It’s resistant to winter, drought and lodging. It’s suggested to be used with machine and hand as 1-2 kg da-1 seed, and 3-4 kg da-1 seed, respectively. 

 

Yield Characters:

It gives the hay yields of 1 ton da-1 in the Central Anatolia and 2 tons ton da-1 in the Transition Zone. Cutting numbers are 3 or 4 in a year. 

 

Technological Characters:

When it is cut at the ten percentage of flowering time (blooming time),  the contents of crude protein,  crude oil, crude ash,  crude fiber, nitrogen free exctract substances and water in hay are 16-18%, 1-1,5%, 9-11%, 25-30%, 34-36% and 5-6%, respectively.

 

Disease and Pets Status:

It’s resistant to diseases.

 

Recomended Area:

Central Anatolia Region and Transition Zone

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