Objectives 3:
Performance

Extant varietal performance data will be associated with genotype data.
This will be based on:


a) selection of maximally informative databases for UK pulse crop characters, site characteristics, history and yearly records

b) selecting a set of 50 cultivars that are differential for the traits identified in the assessment of breeders’ priorities (yield, standing ability, disease resistance), based on maximally informative databases

c) genotyping selected cultivars with genetic markers (200 each)

d) selecting three cultivars that are maximally informative on the basis of phenotypic data and marker analysis for the generation of segregating populations

e) establishing recombinant inbred lines (RILs) to F6 from crosses between the chosen lines (150 lines per population).