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Article: Growth and complexity of white clover stolons in response to biotic and abiotic stress.(Forage & Grazing Lands)
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- Crop Science
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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WHITE CLOVER is a critical component of pastures in temperate humid grazing lands and persists via clonal growth of stolons and seedling recruitment (Pederson, 1995). Through N fixation, it supplies much of the N needed for growth of itself and other species within the sward. Persistence of white clover depends on many factors such as soil type, slope aspect, water, frequency and extent of grazing and cutting, soil fertility, plant genetics, and insect and pathogen infestation.
Clonally propagated plants such as white clover exploit new niches by fragmentation of existing plants (Brock et al., 1988). Research in New Zealand, the UK, and Europe has shown that ...