Almost all alfalfa seed companies have a "high quality" alfalfa variety, although there is likely a considerable range in quality among "high quality" varieties.
The development of high yield or high quality varieties is a major goal in Pyropia breeding; however, traits related to production or quality of P. haitanensis, such as frond length (FL), frond width (FW), frond thickness (FT), fresh weight (W), and growth rates, are quantitative characteristics [ 9– 11].
There was an interaction between variety and cutting height for DM intake and total tract apparent digestibility of DM, crude protein, and neutral detergent fiber because of lower intake and digestibility for the diets containing either the high cut, average quality variety or low cut, higher quality variety.
As the private research/breeding industry evolves post liberalization and responds to the end-users' needs by breeding for quality, it is important to create incentives for farmers to adopt those higher quality varieties.
In colonial America, slaves from west Africa made many a plantation owner rich by growing a particular high-quality variety of rice.
Rice became a cash crop for plantation owners, however, with the advent of a high-quality variety of rice in 1685.
"That's one of the things we are trying to change, having high-quality varieties and enough of them," Fowler said.
They are the most consistent, high-quality varieties we grow and that was evident from our beginning with the varieties.
Before IR64, C4-63 was considered one of the main high-quality varieties in the Philippines.
