Catalog: Vegetable seeds, genetic resources. Tubers, young plants and others.
Catalog:
Vegetable seeds, genetic resources.
Tubers, young plants and others.
Joran's Seeds and Research,
Collection of genetic resources:
JSR represents the world's largest collection for sale of vegetatively propagated leeks and onions as well as sexually fertile garlic.
Pioneer in the referencing and collection of perpetual leek cultivars and associated genetic resources.
And in the development of new lines.
Independent in varietal development:
Different crops such as lettuce, arugula, chard and snake radish are included in innovative research and development programs, focusing on ease of cultivation, sustainability, drought resistance and naturalization capacity in agro-ecological production systems.
To find out actual stocks, contact me:
eBay store: here
Our ethics:
No chemical treatment is used during cultivation.
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All ground work is carried out manually and is therefore as occasional as possible.
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The crops are watered as little as possible.
When they are, it is rainwater stored during the winter.
No water is drawn from the natural environment.
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Wild accessions collected from the wild have been collected in a respectful manner.
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No seeds, plants or tubers sold have been collected from the wild.
Solanaceae:
Tomatoes (Lycopersicon series):
Genus: Solanum
Subgenre: Potatoe
Section: Petota
Subsection: Lycopersicon
Series: Lycopersicon
This Series brings together the species Solanum cheesmaniae, S. galapagense , S. lycopersicum and S. pimpinellifolium.
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Solanum lycopersicum : Cultivated tomatoes
SL#1: Joran's Naturalizable Ivory Tomato:
Plants with indeterminate growth, very easy to grow.
The plants have great general resistance. Little water is needed to obtain vigorous plants, which can grow very large and produce several hundred small fruits.
These tomatoes, currant type, ivory white-yellow in color, have a thin skin and are very sweet and aromatic (typical of wild forms and primitive cultivars).
The clusters of 6 fruits are very regular and have the advantage of being able to be harvested in one go, with pruning shears.
The fruits are immune to black bottoms, sunburn and bursting.
The plants naturalize perfectly in dry soil: they manage to develop, bear fruit, and produce seeds, even in the worst conditions.
After the first year of cultivation, place tomatoes at the base of the mother plant and in the places where you want to have them the following year so that they germinate on their own.
This tomato accession was acquired in 2015 from the French seed merchant: La Ferme de Sainte Marthe, specialized in old varieties. It was a traditional French cultivar named 'Champagne', because of the color of its fruits, and/or its geographical origin, since it is an old local variety from the Champagne-Ardenne department, in France.
Over the years, it has continued to stand out in comparative tests.
Serving as a reference cultivar, it outperformed, in total, nearly a hundred wild tomato accessions and primitive cultivars known to be drought resistant.
Since then, they have only been selected for their ability to naturalize on dry land, in the Ardรจche department, in the south of France.
10 seeds / 6€
25 seeds / 10€
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SL#2: Arielle:
“Self-drying” type cultivar.
This tomato cultivar with an indeterminate port, produces long clusters of red cherry tomatoes weighing around twenty grams, with a high sugar content, which can of course be consumed fresh directly on the plant, but which have the particularity of having a porous skin, thus allowing the fruits to dry naturally.
By the time the tomatoes have ripened, they have lost about 80% of their weight through evaporation.
Hanging the bunches in a dry, ventilated place for a few weeks will allow them to complete their drying.
In particularly hot and dry conditions or in a greenhouse, the fruits can even dry directly on the plants.
This cultivar has been marketed since 2007, it was developed by Supree, a subsidiary of NRGene Technologies; an Israeli company based in Ness Ziona.
Supree exploited the trait of “microcracks” to create this cultivar. A trait usually eliminated when breeding tomatoes.
This preserves the taste and color of the tomato, as well as its nutritional benefits, such as antioxidants and vitamins.
Reproducible seeds.
The plants were grown by open pollination with the cultivar ‘Principe Borghese’, a traditional Italian cultivar with a determinate habit, producing fruits with a high dry matter content, used for drying.
10 seeds / 6€
25 seeds / 10€
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Solanum cheesmaniae : Tomatoes from the Galapagos Islands
It is one of two species of wild tomatoes endemic to the Galapagos Islands archipelago.
It is perfectly interfertile with cultivated tomatoes.
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SC#1:
This wild accession is pure: free from hybridization with Solanum galapagense, another tomato species endemic to the Galapagos archipelago; Solanum pimpinellifolium, an invasive species in the archipelago, or Solanum lycopersicum, the cultivated tomato, whose genetic flow towards wild flora has been significant.
Accession acquired in 2020 from HRSeeds, an American collector of tomatoes and wild peppers, under the name “Galapagos Island Tomato #2”.
This species is known to be able to live (in frost-free conditions) for decades and have thick lignified trunks.
Indeterminate port, regular leaf, 65-85 days.
10 seeds / 6€
25 seeds / 10€
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Tomatoes (Eriopersicon series):
Genus: Solanum
Subgenre: Potatoe
Section: Petota
Subsection: Lycopersicon
Series: Eriopersicon
This Series brings together the species Solanum chilense, S. corneliomulleri, S. habrochaites, S. huaylasense and S. peruvianum.
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Solanum peruvianum : Tomatoes from Peru
The Peruvian tomato is a perennial species: the plants take a vegetative rest during the winter season by abandoning their aerial parts. Peruvian tomatoes can tolerate negative temperatures down to -5°C to -10°C and grow back the following spring.
They are resistant to various stresses of cultivated tomatoes, whether abiotic:
Drought, soil nutrient deprivation.
Or biotic (non-exhaustive lists):
Pathogens: TYLCV, PMoV, TSWV, Cmm, ...
Insect pests: Nematodes responsible for root galls (Meloidogyne sp.: M. arenaria, M. incognita, M. Javanica), potato aphid (Macrosiphum euphorbiae), the whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), ...
The Peruvian tomato has therefore been widely investigated for the improvement of cultivated tomatoes. However, embryos abort quickly after fertilization; to obtain viable hybrids, sophisticated and expensive embryo rescue techniques in vitro must be used; difficult to implement, even in the laboratory.
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SP#1:
This accession of Solanum peruvianum, it is certain, will radically change the future of cultivated tomatoes.
It is the only accession known to be interfertile with other series of subsection Lycopersicon, including S. lycopersicum, the cultivated tomato.
It therefore passes from its tertiary gene pool to the secondary gene pool and can therefore act as a genetic bridge between the cultivated tomato and its most genetically distant species.
Thus greatly expanding the genetic material available for the improvement and introgression of new characters in cultivated tomatoes.
Redundant case in crosses between the cultivated tomato and the wild species of its secondary genetic pool: this is a unidirectional interfertility, fertilization will only succeed when Solanum peruvianum is used as pollen donor and Solanum lycopersicum as maternal parent.
The Peruvian tomato is a perennial species: the plants take a vegetative rest during the winter season by abandoning their aerial parts. Peruvian tomatoes can generally tolerate negative temperatures down to -5°C to -10°C and grow back the following spring.
This species is therefore very interesting for the development of new tomato lines focused on sustainability through modification of the life cycle, behavior and cold resistance.
It is obvious that the economic and commercial interests of large seed groups are not the same as those of independent research,
Therefore, in the past, when crosses with cultivated tomato were carried out, the objective was the introgression of resistance genes to various pests in obtaining commercial hybrids; and not to extend its capacity for sustainability to climates in the northern hemisphere.
While it is certain that on the side of independent research this will be the primary objective, a new Eldorado, in the same way as the purple tomatoes were.
S. peruvianum, due to its self-incompatibility (partial or total depending on the accessions), is strongly allogamous.
This accession was acquired by Joran's Seeds and Research in 2021 from Iwona Ziรณลkowska and Wojciech Maksymilian Szymaลski, Polish collectors of rare plants selling on eBay under the identifier: lupinaster.
15 seeds for 10€
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Solanum habrochaites : Hairy tomatoes
The hairy tomato is a wild species of tomato native to Ecuador and Peru.
Solanum habrochaites (syn. Lycopersicon hirsutum), is divided into two genotypes, which, according to the authors, can be considered as subspecies (subsp.), varieties (var.), or shapes (f.). We will consider them here under the name of subspecies:
S. habrochaites subsp. hirsutum (syn. Lycopersicon hirsutum subsp. typicum)
S. habrochaites subsp. glabratum (syn. Lycopersicon hirsutum subsp. glabratum)
It is considered one of the most important sources of genetic variation for the improvement of cultivated tomato crops and has, as such, been widely hybridized with the latter.
And has also been very widely used in the production of rootstocks.
It presents resistance to various stresses of cultivated tomatoes:
Abiotic, such as its cold tolerance which is greater than that of cultivated tomatoes.
Or biotic, on the one hand by a physical mechanism: the glandular hairs (trichomes) of the plant secrete a sticky substance in which mites, such as red spiders in particular, get stuck. And on the other hand by various biochemical mechanisms (bio-pesticides).
Disease resistance:
ToMV: Tomato Mosaic Virus.
Tm: Tobacco Mosaic Virus.
TSWV: Tomato Spotted Disease.
Ff: Fungus Cladosporium Fulvia fulva (syn. Cladosporium fulvum).
Fol: Vascular Fusarium fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici.
For: Root rot fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. radicis-lycopersici.
On: Oidium mushroom Oidium neolycopersici.
Va: Verticillium fungus Verticillium albo-atrum.
Vd: Verticillium fungus Verticillium dahliae.
Pl: Cork Root Disease Fungus Pyrenochaeta lycopersici.
Resistance to insect pests:
Ma: Meloidogyne arenaria (Nematodes responsible for root galls).
Mi: Meloidogyne incognita (Nematodes responsible for root galls).
Mj: Meloidogyne javanica (Nematodes responsible for root galls).
Bemisia tabaci (whiteflies).
Tuta absoluta (tomato moth).
Tetranychus urticae (mite responsible for root scabs).
Alternaria alternata.
Keiferia lycopersicella.
Neoleucinodes elegantalis (fruit borer).
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Solanum habrochaites subsp. glabratum : Glabrous hairy tomato
Unlike S. habrochaites subsp. hirsutum (syn. Lycopersicon hirsutum subsp. typicum), native to higher altitude river valleys (between 1,800 and 3,300 meters) from southern Ecuador to central Peru ; whose vegetation and fruits are strongly downy, and which are sexually self-incompatible and which has low inter-fertility with cultivated tomatoes,
S. habrochaites subsp. glabratum (syn. Lycopersicon hirsutum subsp. glabratum) is native to the southwestern parts of Ecuador, this subspecies is less downy and generally self-compatible.
This subspecies is capable of easily hybridizing with cultivated tomatoes. Their interfertility is, however, uni-directional: fertilization will only succeed when Solanum habrochaites is used as pollen donor and Solanum lycopersicum (the cultivated tomato) as maternal parent.
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SHG#1:
Accession acquired in 2018, from Iwona Ziรณลkowska and Wojciech Maksymilian Szymaลski, Polish collectors of rare plants and selling on eBay under the identifier: lupinaster.
Accession selected since 2018 by Joran's Seeds and Research for its drought resistance and early fruit production.
15 seeds for 10€
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Tomatoes (Neolycopersicon series):
Monotypic series comprising only the species Solanum pennellii.
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Solanum pennellii :
It is a very different species from other wild tomato species, it is the tomato which is phylogenetically closest to potatoes.
Solanum pennellii has a range extending from northern Peru, mainly from Piura, to northern Chile, mainly in and around Tarapacรก, in dry rocky places and sandy areas at from the sea and up to 3000m altitude.
This perennial plant can reach around 1m high, with silvery green leaves and stems, covered with fine down.
The stems which are very fragile and break at the slightest contact.
The fruits are approximately 0.5 to 0.6 inches in diameter and fall when fully ripe.
Flowers and fruits appear regularly throughout the year, but there is a notable increase in flowering between September and October.
Be careful, this species is difficult to cultivate and make fruit in mild climates.
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SPe#1:
Composite population resulting from the mixture of three accessions, cultivated together since their acquisition in 2021:
Solanum pennellii LA1272, PI 365970:
This accession was collected in 1971, by Charles M. Rick, who established and directed the Tomato Genetic Resource Center (later renamed the CM Rick Tomato Genetic Resource Center) at Public University in Davis, California .
Collection location: in the Hacienda Pisiquilla peach orchard, fundo Pisaquera, along the Pacaibamba road, 50 km east of Chancay, in the Lima department of Peru.
Indeterminate growth, from 90 to more than 120 days.
Acquired from HRSeeds, American collector of tomatoes and wild peppers.
Solanum pennellii “large-fruited”,
And,
Solanum pennellii “small-fruited”, both acquired from Iwona Ziรณลkowska and Wojciech Maksymilian Szymaลski, Polish collectors of rare plants selling on eBay under the identifier: lupinaster.
15 seeds for 10€
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Inter-series hybrid tomatoes:
(SL x SP#1)#1:
(Cultivated tomato (S. lycopersicum) x Peruvian tomato (S. peruvianum) SP#1)#1:
Hybrid line obtained by controlled pollination by Iwona Ziรณลkowska and Wojciech Maksymilian Szymaลski.
Accession acquired by Joran's Seeds and Research in the form of F2 seeds, in 2021, from Iwona Ziรณลkowska and Wojciech Maksymilian Szymaลski, Polish collectors of rare plants, selling on eBay under the identifier: lupinaster.
It is a grex (population resulting from a hybridization), the plants are morphologically close to Solanum lycopersicum, they produce small red fruits, the size of a cherry tomato (~ 20g).
15 seeds for 10€
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Wild potatoes:
Genus: Solanum
Subgenre: Potatoe
Section: Petota
Subsection: Potatoe
The Potato Subsection contains two Super Series:
Stellata, comprising the Series: Moreliformia, Bulbocastana, Pinnatisecta, Polyadenia, Commersonia, Circaeifolia, Lignicaulia, Yungasensa.
Rotata, comprising the Series: Megistacroloba, Cuneolata, Conicibaccata, Piurana, Maglia, Tuberosa (wild, cultivated), Acaulia, Longipedicellata, Demissa.
BE CAREFUL ! Very invasive plants!
I advise you to grow them in containers of at least twenty liters.
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Solanum acaule : Stemless potato
Genus: Solanum
Subgenre: Potatoe
Section: Petota
Subsection: Potato
Super Series: Stellata
Series: Acaulia
This species of wild potato has been widely used in varietal development for its resistance to cold and disease. But also as a genetic bridge between cultivated potatoes and other wild potato species.
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SA#1:
These plants have short stems, they flower very quickly and throughout the summer period.
These light pink flowers can, depending on climatic conditions, be followed by an abundance of berries.
Bitter tubers.
The plants are very stoloniferous, and can, in soil covered with crushed wood mulch, conquer 6m² of soil in the space of one season. BE CAREFUL ! Very invasive plant!
Several individuals have been obtained from seeds (true seeds). These seeds were acquired from Iwona Ziรณลkowska and Wojciech Maksymilian Szymaลski, Polish collectors of rare plants selling on eBay under the identifier: lupinaster.
1 tuber / €5
6 tubers / €25
(Availability: September to March)
15 seeds / 6€
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Solanum chacoense cv. ‘Purple Wings’: Chaco Potato
Genus: Solanum
Subgenre: Potatoe
Section: Petota
Subsection: Potato
Super Series: Rotata
Series: Yungasensa
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SCh#1:
This this accession was acquired by Joran's Seeds and Research in 2018, in the form of tubers, from Iwona Ziรณลkowska and Wojciech Maksymilian Szymaลski, Polish collectors of rare plants and selling on eBay under the identifier: lupinaster.
This is an accession propagated by vegetative propagation.
Its tubers are bitter and have a purple skin.
The stems of this clone are also streaked with purple. Its flowers are white with yellow stamens. It flowers profusely and is very decorative in a container.
Sexually, he is completely self-incompatible.
It has very high resistance to drought and trampling.
1 tuber / €5
6 tubers / €25
(Availability: September to March)
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Eggplant:
Genus: Solanum
Subgenus: Leptostemonum
Section: Melongena
Species: Melongena
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Solanum melongena subsp. melongena : Cultivated eggplant
SMM#1: Archaic cultivated eggplants:
Accession acquired under the name Solanum undatum var. violaceum. An obsolete name, relating to the time of its use, to an Asian species of wild eggplant today synonymous with Solanum melongena subsp. cumingii.
The seeds, purchased in China, via Amazon, arrived to me labeled with a simple code, and had a very low germination rate. During a second sowing test, in 2024, 3 plants were obtained from around a hundred seeds.
The young plants had thorny leaves, a characteristic very rarely observed, even in the most traditional cultivated forms.
This indicates either that it is an archaic cultivar, or that there have been more or less recent introgressions of wild genetic material; since the plants also possess many characteristics of modern cultivars:
Subsequently, the plants no longer produced thorns. They produce large leaves, large solitary purple flowers followed by large purple fruits, similar in size and shape to contemporary cultivars. But with a lower yield.
Plants are moderately drought tolerant.
15 seeds / 6€
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Solanum melongena subsp. ovigerum : Thai eggplants
Traditional cultivated eggplants from Thailand, these cultivars have in common that they produce small fruits, 5 to 10cm in diameter, they can be round, ovoid or long, with white, green, white-marbled, yellow or purple skins.
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SMO#1: Thai eggplant with small ovoid white fruits:
Different cultivars of these “Thai eggplants” were imported from Thailand.
Among them, this cultivar with white ovoid fruits stood out for its ease of cultivation, its earliness and its yield in unfavorably dry conditions:
This accession produces small ovoid fruits with white skin, followed by a flowering composed of small white flowers. A solitary flower develops, then in the axil of it emerges a cluster of up to 17 flowers (and more). However, not all will develop into fruit.
Fully grown plants are branched and occupy about 1 cubic meter.
15 seeds / 6€
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Solanum melongena subsp. cumingii (syn. S. insanum ): Wild eggplant
SMC#1: Australian wild eggplant
Accession collected in Australia. Obtained from Iwona Ziรณลkowska and Wojciech Maksymilian Szymaลski, Polish collectors of rare plants and sellers on eBay under the pseudonym lupinaster.
Small (30-60cm) compact and very thorny plants, producing small purple flowers, followed by small green fruits marbled with white, turning yellow when ripe.
Drought resistant.
6 seeds / 6€
15 seeds / 10€
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Brassicaceae:
Cabbages (Brassica sp.),
Radish (Raphanus sp.) and their hybrids:
Brassica napus :
FloB#1-S1: Autogamous offspring of the individual “FloB#1”:
The individual named: FloB#1 (shown in photo) was isolated from grex 'Homesteader's Kaleidoscopic Perennial' by Joran's Seeds and Research.
It is a headless shrubby cabbage, presenting a perennial life cycle and white flowering. The plant is perfectly self-fertile and produces large seeds, thus placing it in the species Brassica napus.
But its genetics are more complex: we know that Chris Homanics, to develop his grex in the early 2000s, hybridized a large number of headless cabbages (belonging to the species B. oleracea and B. napus var. pabularia) biennials with perfect sexual fertility with perennial forms of cabbages (B. oleracea var. ramosa ) having very low sexual reproduction capacities, due to very rare flowering.
Then, over several generations in open pollination, he selected the hybrids with the following criteria: their durability, their sexual fertility, and their general resistance.
In my opinion, the individual “FloB#1” would come from the crossing of an ornamental cabbage (B.napus) x Brassica oleracea var. ramosa. And its autogamy was able to preserve its white flowering through generations of open pollination.
This individual was identified and preserved for its ability to simultaneously possess several interesting characteristics for varietal development:
Among the cabbages sensu lato few have a white flowering. This color has the advantage of being a recessive character compared to the yellow flowering, this characteristic is therefore a valuable tool in varietal development. Functioning as a hybridization marker.
Among the Brassica napus, having a perennial life cycle is a rarity. This characteristic makes it possible to preserve and propagate the individual indefinitely thanks to simple cloning by cuttings.
This tetraploid species (B.napus) resulting from the crossing of B. oleracea and B. rapa is a genetic bridge frequently used for its interfertility with a large number other species of Brassica (and even Brassicaceae). And has the advantage, unlike its ancestors B. oleracea and B. rapa of being self-compatible, which constitutes a very valuable third tool, greatly facilitating stabilization of certain traits, particularly recessive.
Plants can live 7 to 10 years and are easily regenerated by cuttings.
They are very easy to grow. Very resistant to drought, pests and diseases.
The seeds offered come from the self-fertilization of the individual named: FloB#1 (for White Flowering). These are therefore FloB#1-S1 seeds. (S1=Self 1).
10 seeds / 6€
25 seeds / 10€
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xBrassicoraphanus :
Artificial inter-generic hybrids between cabbage and radish.
‘Baemoochae’:
XBrassicoraphanus cv. ‘Baemoochae’ (syn. BB1) was bred by Lee Soo-Sung and his team at the National Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, Korea, the cultivar was registered on 07/15/2004.
This variety is the first hybrid cross of Chinese cabbage and radish.
It is a type of headed Chinese cabbage with glabrous leaves and thick petioles.
The flavor is spicy and sweet. Rich in sulforaphane.
Annual life cycle.
Sowing: mid-August and harvest period at the end of October (60-70 days before maturity).
Flowering initiated by vernalization: the development of its flower bud is initiated by temperatures remaining below 10°C for more than two weeks.
Its inventors describe the cultivar as follows:
Baemoochae is characterized in that it can survive alone in the natural environment, has high tolerance to viral diseases, is economically efficient in seed production, and has sufficient uniformity to be cultivated as a vegetable crop.
In the past many attempts to hybridize Chinese cabbage and radish were carried out, until then, few hybrid seeds were obtained because the embryos degenerated shortly after fertilization.
Taking this into account,
During the spring of 1986, the hybridization of Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) cv. ‘Junseung’ (syn. ‘Teabaek’), used as a maternal parent, and radish (Raphanus sativus) cv. ‘Baekkyoung’ (syn. ‘Bulam3’), used as a paternal relative, was performed.
Growing ovules (immature seeds at day 10 after pollination) were cultured in vitro.
These plants were all allodiploid and could not produce pollen or offspring.
Allotetraploidy (amphidiploidy) was induced by colchicine treatment.
Self-fertilization of the obtained allotetraploid plants was carried out in May and June and the anther culture was carried out with the application of the anther culture technique of Keller and Amstrong (1960) with the plant coded OV115C which was selected for its ability to produce self-pollinating pods.
33 embryos were induced from an anther culture. These individuals were selected as a family line. Self-fertilization of descendants of line 115C (S1 generation) produced 1.5 seeds on average per flower. However, even after several generations, the lineage remained very unstable. Therefore, the microspore culture technique was applied. The microspores of the OA20-1-10-1 line from an anther culture were cultured in NLN13 medium and 9 amphidiploid individuals were obtained. This line named OAM was self-fertilized.
Seeds from this line were sown in the field to produce seed, resulting in approximately 300 pods per plant and 1.7 seeds per pod on average.
15 seeds for €6
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Arugula:
Eruca sativa : Cultivated arugula
ES#1: ‘Joran’s Naturalizable Improved Arugula Mix’:
Very distinctive and innovative population developed by Joran’s Seeds and Research, and commercialized since 2024.
This line has the particularity of presenting whole leaves (uncut) with, depending on the individual, more or less toothed and wavy edges; associated with white or purple veins.
They were developed for their naturalization capacity in agro-ecological, permaculture or agroforestry production systems.
This improved population comes from hybrids between wild rockets collected in Italy (Eruca vesicaria subsp. vesicaria), and cultivated rockets (Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa) naturalized in the state from Colorado, USA.
Following mutations and several years of selection, “oak leaf” and “whole” (uncut) foliage have been stabilized within this population.
The diversity contained in this population guarantees its adaptation to your environmental and cultural conditions.
Sown at the end of summer: from August to September, they will require no care or watering to provide, all winter long, an abundance of aromatic foliage, very popular in salads.
Harvest leaf by leaf without exhausting the plants, collect the seeds and spread them immediately!
You will harvest lettuce every winter of your life!
This population perfectly combines performance, quality and eccentricity with perfect resistance.
Which probably makes it the best strain currently available on the market.
Above, center of the photograph:
a arugula 'Joran's Improved Naturalizable Arugula Mix'
growing in a paved path and outcompeting native flora
from the department of Ardรจche, in the south of France, December 19, 2024.
Retrospective on its development: here
0.25g (~145 seeds) / €6
0.5g (~290 seeds) / €10
1g (>500 seeds) / €15
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Lactuca :
Hybrids between wild and cultivated lettuces :
Lettuce (Oak leaf x Wild lettuce) F2 :
Please note, these are second generation seeds, so they will present a very high phenotypic variability: some will resemble cultivated lettuce, others like wild lettuce (Lactuca sativa subsp. serriola var. serriola), others will present an intermediate phenology.
Hybrid line developed by Joran's Seeds and Research as part of its “naturalizable lettuce by self-seeding” breeding program:
https://joransseedsresearch.blogspot.com/2023/12/crossing.html?m=1
These are seeds surplus to our work, proposed as a selection population or as genetic material.
Their parental lines were:
Oak leaf type lettuces (Lactuca sativa subsp. sativa var. crispa), with an open habit, light green foliage and reproducible seeds.
Wild lettuces (Lactuca sativa subsp. serriola var. serriola), from the local flora of the Ardรจche department, in the south of France, collected by Joran's Seeds and Research.
0.5g of seeds (~400 to 500) seeds / €12
Helianthus:
Helianthus annuus : Sunflower
HA#1: Wild Kansas sunflower.
Location of collection: State of Kansas, United States of America.
Accession history:
Accession acquired by Joran's Seeds and Research, in 2022, from Iwona Ziรณลkowska and Wojciech Maksymilian Szymaลski, Polish collectors of rare plants and sellers on eBay under the identifier: lupinaster
Description :
Branched plants that can exceed 2 meters in height and produce around a hundred flowers throughout the summer.
They produce an abundance of small seeds 4 to 5 mm long and 2 to 3 mm at their widest, they are light brown in color, and are irregularly streaked and spotted with black.
The plants are very resistant to drought and heat. They naturalize perfectly and can even become invasive.
15 seeds for €6
Amaranthaceae:
Chard:
Beta vulgaris var. cicla : Swiss chard
BVC#1: ‘Joran’s Naturalizable Chard ’:
Commercial cultivar selected since 2014 for its naturalization capacity in dry soil in the Ardรจche department, in the south of France.
The plants manage to produce appreciable yields, even in the worst conditions, the plants are extremely robust and naturalize perfectly in dry soil.
15 seeds / 6€
35 seeds /10€
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Beta vulgaris subsp. maritimus : Wild maritime chard
Wild ancestor of beets and cultivated chard.
The vast majority of accessions feature green leaf blades and betalains (red-purple dyes) in the stems and petioles.
Plants have a biennial or perennial life cycle.
BVM#1: Wild maritime chard #1:
Accession collected on the island of Noirmoutier, department of Vendรฉe, France. By Joran’s Seeds and Research in 2023.
The foliage and stems have slightly marked red streaks compared to the other accessions offered.
15 seeds / 6€
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BVM#2: Wild maritime chard #2:
Accession collected on the island of Yeu, department of Vendรฉe, France. By Joran’s Seeds and Research in 2023.
The foliage and stems have red streaks, linked to the presence of betalain.
15 seeds / 6€
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BVM#3: Wild maritime chard #3:
Accession collected in North Yorkshire, England. By Nigel Dodd, owner of the English nursery Kykeon, specializing in wild plants and acquired by Joran's Seeds and Research in 2018.
The foliage and stems have red streaks, linked to the presence of betalain.
15 seeds / 6€
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Beta vulgaris subsp. adanensis : Wild chard from the Near East
BVA#1: Greek wild chard #1:
Accession collected in Greece and obtained in a seed exchange around 2018.
This is probably an accession Beta vulgaris subsp. adanensis rather than the subspecies maritimus.
Unfortunately I did not find an identification key for the subspecies adanensis, which is very rarely cited in the scientific literature.
However, its place of collection, its life cycle as well as its appearance, very different from the forms of subsp. maritimus that I was able to observe, lead me to believe it.
These plants have a strong perennial life cycle, the foliage and stems are perfectly green (they show no trace of betalain), which is rare within the maritimus subspecies. Its glomeruli have a different appearance from Beta vulgaris lato sensu , and are more similar to those of Beta trigyna .
However, its membership in this species is invalid due to its green flowers with yellow stamens, specific to Beta vulgaris, and its perfectly inter-fertility with the latter.
15 seeds / 6€
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Strawberry spinach (Blitum virgatum):
Naturalized since 2014 on dry land. Their general resistance has improved considerably since their acquisition.
The plants are drought tolerant and grow well in hard, poor soils. Thus, they frequently grow on paths, where they also tolerate trampling very well:
But they also appreciate shady places. And since they do not exceed 25cm in height, they integrate without harming the surrounding plants, and therefore represent a very good ground cover in association with larger plants.
Sowing can be done in spring and autumn. Naturalized, the plants germinate conveniently at different times of the year.
Tastefully, the leaves are very similar to those of real spinach. Plants should be harvested at the rosette stage. Because after this stage, the plants branch out, the leaves become smaller, and the harvest is much too tedious.
The small red fruits, similar to small strawberries, are rather tasteless. But can be used in jams.
100 seeds / €5
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Fabaceae:
Pea (Pisum sp.)
The genus Pisum has three species: Pisum fulvum, P. abyssinicum and P. sativum subsp. sativum, the last two of which are cultivated species.
These two species, which are morphologically very similar and carry the same chromosome number (2n = 2x = 14), come from domestication events clearly separated in time and space:
Pisum abyssinicum :
The Ethiopian pea, also known as Abyssinian or locally dekoko.
The domestication of the Ethiopian pea began around 2000 BC.
Pisum sativum subsp. sativum :
The cultivated pea was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent, around 8000 BC, from Pisum sativum subsp. elatius, its wild ancestor.
Pisum sativum and P. abyssinicum produce a parentage with low pollen fertility; it is the same with P. fulvum.
P. abyssinicum and P. fulvum have greater affinity and produce relatively fertile offspring.
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Pisum fulvum : Tawny pea
This species is called “tawny” because of the tawny orange color of its flowers.
The wild pea P. fulvum is genetically distinct from Pisum sativum and Pisum abyssinicum.
P. fulvum has returned to the shores of the eastern Mediterranean: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine.
Its habit is moderately bushy, very short (more than P. abyssinicum), adapted to dry areas. Some accessions of P. fulvum have an amphicarpic character, with basal pods growing in the soil.
It has low sexual compatibility with Pisum sativum subsp. sativum.
It belongs to its secondary gene pool, which means that their hybridization involves difficulties, which can range from difficulty in obtaining fertilization, to low fertility, malformations or juvenile mortality in the hybrids obtained.
This secondary gene pool includes P. abyssinum and P. fulvum.
These two species have a greater affinity between them:
According to O.E. Kosterin (2017) crosses P. abyssinicum x P. fulvum prove to be very easy.
P. abyssinicum can be used as a bridge species to transfer genes from P. fulvum to P. sativum subsp. sativum.
Because Pisum fulvum has long been studied and used as a source of resistance to different biotic stresses, such as:
The pea weevil (Bruchus pisorum L.)
Powdery mildew
Ascochytosis
Or abiotic:
Drought
Heat
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PF#1:
Collection location: unknown.
Accession history:
Accession acquired by Joran's Seeds and Research, in 2022, from Iwona Ziรณลkowska and Wojciech Maksymilian Szymaลski, Polish collectors of rare plants and sellers on eBay under the identifier: lupinaster
Description :
Small plants, stems 15 to 20 cm, small orange flowers, produces dark brown seeds, up to 5 mm in diameter when dry. This accession has an amphicarpic character.
Their lifespan is short (~70-80 days).
10 seeds for 10€
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Beans (Phaseolus sp.)
Phaseolus vulgaris X Phaseolus acutifolius cv. ‘Beefy Resilient Grex’:
The pollen of Phaseolus species is sensitive to temperatures exceeding 25°C, which has the effect of completely abolishing fertilization for part of the summer in areas with a hot climate.
Phaseolus acutifolius is an annual species cultivated in dry and desert areas, managing to fruit up to 35°C. They are unusually heat and drought tolerant, and are resistant or tolerant of diseases to which common beans succumb. But have a short lifespan of around 2 months and produce small grains and low yields.
A single hybrid line between these two species, it is 'Beefy Resilient Grex'.
It was developed by Carol Deep, founder and owner of Fertile Valley Seeds. And was first released as a segregating F4 population around 2012.
Date of OSSI engagement: January 2015.
The OSSI Pledge guarantees the freedom to use these OSSI-Pledged seeds as you wish. In exchange, you agree not to restrict the use of these seeds or their derivatives by third parties by patents or other means, and to include this commitment in any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives.
This line comes from the crossing of a common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) cv. ‘Gaucho’ X Tepary bean ( P. acutifolius) cv. ‘Black Mitla’.
Both are small beans, round in cross section and about twice as long as they are wide and are easy to beat.
Joran's Seeds and Research has acquired seed stock in 2021 from Czech seed grower and breeder Permaseminka.
After a year of multiplication, among the seeds collected, three phenotypes were identified: a black one, representing approximately 75% of the plants; a brown, about 20% of the plants, and finally, a red, about 5% of the plants.
These three phenotypes have been isolated and cultivated separately since 2023:
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Joran’s Red Beefy Resilient:
OSSI-Pledged line.
15 seeds for €6
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Joran’s Brown Beefy Resilient:
OSSI-Pledged line.
15 seeds for €6
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Joran’s Black Beefy Resilient:
OSSI-Pledged line.
15 seeds for €6
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Phaseolus polystachios :
Phaseolus polystachios is the only wild bean species in the northern hemisphere. It has a perennial life cycle, and depending on the accessions, it can have great resistance to cold since its distribution area extends to Canada.
These natural populations are rare. Access to even more seeds. And particularly in Europe, since these seeds are not allowed to transport to European countries.
After many years of research, Joran’s Seeds and Research acquired two accessions with strong phenotypic variations.
Its closest relative is P. lunatus, the lima bean, a perennial species grown for its very large beans in the tropical countries of South America. And occasionally grown as an annual in the northern hemisphere.
A few cases of hybridization between these two species have been reported in the scientific literature. The main challenge in obtaining hybrids is to match the flowering periods of these two species. Since the autumn flowering of P. polystachios occurs when P. lunatus generally no longer bears flowers.
Be careful, the pods dehisce and expel the seeds when fully ripe, harvest the pods as soon as they reach maturity: when the seeds tinkle when you tap the pods with your fingertip.
Accession PP#2, acquired from: The Garden of the Set, was eliminated from the catalog for its too late flowering, which began in September. This accession was therefore not cultivable in areas with mild climates or short seasons because the plants were destroyed by frost before the seeds matured at the end of November.
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PP#1:
Accession collected in the State of Louisiana, United States of America.
Accession acquired by Joran's Seeds and Research, in 2023, from Iwona Ziรณลkowska and Wojciech Maksymilian Szymaลski, Polish collectors of rare plants and sellers on eBay under the identifier: lupinaster
Its seeds, smaller in size than accession #2, are brown in color.
The pods contain 3 to 4 seeds.
They germinate perfectly without scarification. Also making them suitable for cooking.
Its flowers begin to bloom at the beginning of August. And the pods are harvested dry during the month of October.
Its stems are thick, hard and robust. The stems, leaf veins, and pods are purple in color.
This accession has great potential for domestication and its earlier flowering favors its hybridization with Phaseolus lunatus.
1 seed / €1.20
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Poaceae:
Perennial sorghums
(Sorghum xalmum and related genetics):
‘M61 Survivor’:
Heterogeneous population composed of small plants, around 150cm, which produce numerous tillers throughout the summer.
The panicles, of variable densities, carrying orange to red grains and of slightly variable size from one plant to another.
Although some plants showed signs of longevity until February/March, none survived the winter of 2023.
Accession history:
Originally bred by Tim Peters, a prolific producer of breakthrough genetics, and owner of the (now closed) nursery: Peters Seed & Research in Oregon from an interspecific hybrid between Sorghum bicolor and Sorghum halepense.
In 2005, Tim Peters gave seeds to Sarah Kleeger and Andrew Still of the Adaptive Seeds nursery in Oregon.
In 2016, Nate Kleinman of Experimental Farm Network received two panicles from Sarah Kleeger and Andrew Still. He grew these plants in Elmer, New Jersey.
During the first cultivation, one individual managed to survive the winter, where the temperature dropped to 12 degrees Fahrenheit (or approximately -11°C) at the coldest of winter.
However, the plant failed to survive its second winter, where the temperature dropped to 6 degrees Fahrenheit (or approximately -14°C).
The seeds of this plant were sown, and 4 plants survived the following winter.
Seeds from the surviving plants were compiled and the population was renamed: 'M61 Survivor'.
During the winter of 2022, Joran's Seeds and Research purchased seeds from Experimental Farm Network.
In 2023, cultivation was carried out side by side with perennial forage sorghums cv. 'Silk' 'Silk' has a very different morphology from that of 'M61': it produces vegetation 2.5m to 3.5m high, a few short rhizomes, the panicles are very airy and are similar to those of S. halepense, as well as the color and shape of its seeds.
This way, hybrids, if there are any, will be easy to distinguish.
15 seeds / 6€
50 seeds / 10€
(Seeds grown in open pollination with 'Silk')
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'Silk':
(Sorghum halepense x S. bicolor subsp. bicolor) cv. Krish x S. bicolor subsp. verticilliflorum
Short-lived perennial forage plant (3 to 5 years), drought tolerant.
Upright perennial plants with numerous tillers and stems reaching 2 to 3.5 m high, with a few short rhizomes. Blade 25-40 mm wide, and can reach more than 1m in length, glabrous except for a few hairs near the membranous ligule.
The seeds are reddish brown in color and obovoid to ellipsoid in shape.
Approximately 3mm x 2mm; approximately. 160,000 per kg; caryopsis 187,000 per kg.
Genetic material of interest in the development of frost-resistant perennial grain sorghum.
Accession history:
'Krish' is a diploid (2n=20) forage sorghum developed in 1965 in Australia, at the Cooper Laboratory, CSIRO, Lawes, Queensland from F1 hybrid seeds which were supplied by Dr. N. Krishnaswamy of the Indian Research Council agricultural, Coimbatore, Madras.
It is a hybrid between a diploid accession of Sorghum halepense Pers. (2n = 20), a commonly tetraploid species, and S. bicolor subsp. bicolor.
'Krish' has not been used commercially to any great extent. It has been used as a source of resistance to sugarcane mosaic virus in grain sorghum (S. bicolor) breeding.
'Silk' is a tetraploid (2n = 40) forage sorghum selected in Australia from the progeny of a cross between 'Krish' (2n = 20) and S. bicolor subsp. verticilliflorum (syn. S. arundinaceum) (2n = 20).
It was registered as a forage plant in 1978 and has been widely grown in New South Wales and Queensland.
'Silk' establishes easily in spring and shows early, rapid growth, early tillering and ability to compete with weeds.
Unlike 'Krish' which had low vigor and flowered much later than 'Silk'.
It has a high degree of resistance to common foliar diseases (rust and downy mildew), as well as sugarcane mosaic virus.
15 seeds / 6€
50 seeds /10€
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'CO(FS)-31’:
Cultivar developed by the Department of Fodder Crops, Center of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
It was marketed under the name CO 31 fodder sorghum in 2014.
It is a Gamma ray (400 Gy) mutant of the multi-cut forage sorghum variety CO (FS) 29.
It recorded an extremely high green fodder yield of 192 t/ha/year compared to the control CO (FS) 29 (167 t/ha/year). The percentage increase in green fodder yield compared to the CO control (FS) 29 was 14.9.
The seeds are small, black in color and obovoid to ellipsoid in shape.
Drought resistant, perennial 3 to 5 years.
15 seeds / 6€
50 seeds /10€
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Strawberry plants:
Fragaria x vescana :
This hybrid species was obtained artificially between the garden strawberry (Fragaria xananassa) and the wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca).
This crossing cannot take place naturally since Fragaria × ananassa has eight sets of chromosomes while Fragaria vesca only has two. This results in sterile offspring.
The polyploidization of Fragaria vesca with colchicine makes it possible to obtain tetraploid mutants, providing with Fragaria × ananassa, decaploid, fertile and vigorous offspring.
The fruits are more aromatic than those of cultivated strawberries and larger than those of wild strawberries. Their pulp has an excellent taste with a strong aroma; the wild strawberry aroma is clearly recognizable.
Its flesh has a much softer texture than that of commercial garden strawberry varieties; As a result, the fruits do not have good storage and transportation properties and therefore have not acquired any commercial importance.
Fragaria x vescana is however particularly suitable for private gardens:
The plants are very stoloniferous and are vigorous ground covers.
They are not very susceptible to diseases and are much more resistant to low temperatures than F. × ananassa.
And their fruits, as in their relative F. vesca, grow on robust and erect clusters, which protrude from the plants; thus limiting their predation by gastropods, insects, and attacks by Botrytis, without having to resort to mulching.
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‘Annelie’:
This cultivar, registered in 1977, comes from the Swedish breeding program led by
Karin Trajkovski at the Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) in Balsgรฅrd, Sweden.
Accession acquired by Joran's Seeds and Research, in 2022, in the form of plants, from the German nursery Deaflora.
1 bare root plant / €3
(Availability: spring)
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'Florika': (syn. Dr Bauer's® Florika Upholstery Strawberry)
This cultivar, initially called “Florina”, comes from a German research program.
Dr. Rudolf Bauer, leading the research program, whose death in 1983 preceded the registration of the cultivar in 1989.
'Florika', was obtained by crossing the garden strawberry 'Sparkle' (8x) with a tetraploid accession of Fragaria vesca var. semperflorens (4x).
The cross product (6x) was crossed with the garden strawberry 'Hummi' (8x).
'Florika' was selected from this cross.
It turns out to be decaploid (10x), meaning that it comes from a non-reduced egg cell.
Accession acquired by Joran's Seeds and Research, in 2020, in the form of plants, from the French nursery Baumaux.
'Florika' is a non-everbearing variety, which therefore produces fruit every year in June/July. The bright red, cone-shaped fruits measure 1.5 to 4 cm in diameter and are therefore considerably larger than wild strawberries, but smaller than most contemporary garden strawberries. The fruits grow on erect, robust clusters which protrude from the plants, thus limiting their predation by gastropods, insects, and attack by Botrytis, without having to resort to mulching.
1 bare root plant / €3
(Availability: spring)
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Flowering plants:
California poppies (Escholtzia californica):
Population whose flowering presents an extreme variety of colors and shapes: white, yellow, orange, red, mahogany, pink, magenta.
Sometimes two-tone in different forms: yellow with an orange central eye, or pink variegated with white for example.
And different flower shapes: double flowers, wrinkled petals; sometimes both.
The plants are perennial and are very resistant to lack of water and poor soil conditions. They naturalize perfectly and flower profusely from spring to fall.
100 seeds / €6
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French marigolds (Tagetes patula):
Marigolds are very easy to grow plants, they resist drought and heat well, and have lots of flowers throughout the summer.
They have a nematocidal effect, including on Pratylenchus penetrans, and their small dimensions (~20cm cube) allow them to be combined with larger plants, such as tomatoes for example.
Their presence also keeps gastropods away.
In addition to their ornamental appearance, these plants are also interesting for decorating salads, the florets are of varied colors, ranging from yellow to red depending on their maturity and are easily detached from the inflorescences. They do not have any bitterness or pronounced aroma, unlike the majority of flowers.
They can even constitute a real ingredient in summer mixed salads, when foliage becomes scarce in the garden.
This is the “champion” type.
This accession, selected by Joran's Seeds and Research, has been naturalized since 2014 in Ardรจche, a department in the south of France.
0.5g of seeds for €6
