Article
Progress in breeding perennial clovers for temperate agriculture
2005-01-01
Abstract excerpt
White clover (Trifolium repens L.) and red clover (T. pratense L.) are the most important legumes of temperate pastures. The former is used largely in systems based around sheep or cattle grazing and is grown together with a companion grass. Breeding aims to optimize the white clover contribution to the sward. This means that yield per se is not the aim but rather to take full advantage of the benefits of white cl...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f5a82dbf-b942-593d-910a-55871bdf1920
- DOI
- 10.1017/s0021859605005101
