Selection Before the Crop Flowers

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Selection Before the Crop Flowers

• Seedling traits
• Growth rate
• Quality traits
• Plant stature
• Days to flowering

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Seedling Traits

• Vigor
• Days to emergence
• Damping off resistance
• Cold hardiness
• Early leaf quality traits
• Baby leaf yield

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Growth Rate

• Nutrient scavenging
• Photosynthetic ability
• Weed competition
• Leaf yield

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Quality Traits

• Nutritional quality
• Color
• Flavor
• Leaf shape

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Sputnik Arugula
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Stature and Shape

• Disease avoidance
• Weed competition / suppression
• Leaf cover / fruit protection
• Harvest-ability
• Root color
• Root shape

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Scarlet Nantes - Western
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Scarlet Nantes Terra Organica
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Scarlet Nantes Alf Christianson
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Days to Flowering

• Bolting tolerance
• Days to first flower
• Number of flowers

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Crossers Easily Selected Before Flowering

• Arugula
• Beet
• Carrot
• Chicory
• Cilantro
• Leeks

• Mizuna
• Onion
• Orach
• Radicchio
• Radish
• Swiss chard