Riveland

Friday, 02 October 2009 11:32

'Riveland' lentil was released by the USDA-ARS (Pullman, WA) in cooperation with Washington State University Agricultural Research Center, University of Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, and North Dakota State University Agricultural Experiment Station in June 2007. Riveland was released on the basis of exceptionally large seed size, broad adaptation to U.S. production zones, excellent seed quality, and high yield potential. Riveland was named after Neil Riveland, agronomist, North Dakota State University, Williston Research Extension Center, Williston, ND. Riveland was selected as an F5 plant row in 1998. It originated from the cross 'Laird'/ VW000412 (cross number X95L073) made by F.J. Muehlbauer in 1995. Laird is a large-seeded yellow-cotyledon cultivar developed in Canada by A.E. Slinkard, and VW000412 is a large-seeded breeding line developed by V.E. Wilson, a USDA-ARS agronomist at Pullman (retired). Riveland promises to provide the U.S. lentil industry with a high-quality, broadly adapted cultivar that will meet the needs of growers and processors and has good prospects for acceptance in international markets. Riveland was tested as selection LC860616L and released by the USDA-ARS (Pullman, WA) in cooperation with Washington State University Agricultural Research Center, University of Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, and North Dakota State University Agricultural Experiment Station on 15 June 2007. It was released on the basis of its exceptionally large seed size, broad adaptation to production zones in the United States and high yield potential. Riveland was named after Neil Riveland, agronomist at the North Dakota State University Williston Research Extension Center, Williston, ND. He is an avid supporter of the recently developed lentil industry in North Dakota. Riveland is a large-seeded green lentil and is similar to Pennell and Merrit, released in 2003 (Muehlbauer and McPhee, 2004a,b). Riveland had lower scores for virus infection, mainly pea enation mosaic, compared with ‘Mason’ Go to table of lentil varieties