Registration of 'Nu Destiny' Kentucky bluegrass.(Registrations Of Cultivars)

'Nu Destiny' Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) (Reg. no. CV-81, P1632270) is a turf-type cultivar released in August 2002 by J.R. Simplot Co., Jacklin Seed, Post Falls, ID. Experimental designations for Nu Destiny were 94-2695 and J-2695.

Nu Destiny originated as an apomictic single-plant selection from the progeny of hybrid 92-4275, created in the field at Post Falls in June 1992, using plant 90-0416 as the maternal parent and 'Midnight' (Meyer et al., 1984) as the pollen parent. Breeding line 90-0416 is a dark green, apomictic plant selected 10 July 1990 as a progeny from an open-pollinated hybridization of 'Huntsville' (Jacklin et al., 1989). The color of 90-0416 is similar to 'Glade' (Jacklin et al., 1977), the probable pollen parent. Seeds harvested from 90-0416 plants were sown in greenhouse flats during the spring of 1993, and …