Registration of `Maravilla-TCL99' Triticale.

Crop Science, January, 2001 by ABDALLA, O.; CAMPUZANO, G. ESTRADA; HEDE, A.; MELGAREJO, A. BALBUENA; MERGOUM, M.; PFEIFFER, W.H.; RAJARAM, S.; RUEDA, C.G. MARTINEZ; VARUGHESE, G.

`Maravilla-TCL99' spring triticale (X triticosecale Wittmack L.) (Reg. no. CV-21, PI 613160) was developed by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico D.F., Mexico, and released in Mexico by the University of Mexico State, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, UAEM, in 1999 (Reg. no. 1229-TCL-010-300799/C).

Maravilla-TCL99 is a widely adapted and high yielding complete hexaploid triticale cultivar. It was developed using a modified pedigree selection method known as the shuttle breeding method established by N.E. Borlaug in the mid-1940s (1) and adopted by the CIMMYT wheat and triticale breeding program (3). Shuttling germplasm between Obregon (40 m alt and 27.5 [degrees] N lat) and Toluca (2640 m alt and 18 [degrees] N lat)...