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Article: White clover morphology changes with stress treatments.(Forage & Grazing Lands)
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- Crop Science
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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WHITE CLOVER is an important forage legume in any temperate regions of the world (Frame and Newbould, 1986), particularly in mixed species pastures. White clover adaptability is attributed, in part, to genetic variability in the species (Burdon, 1980; Turkington and Harper, 1979). Perenniality of white clover depends on renewal of plant parts (Beinhart, 1963; Williams, 1987), and a recently established stand of white clover evolves from tap root growth to clonal growth in 1 to 3 yr (Brock and Tilbrook, 2000). Persistence of white clover ecotypes is positively associated with stolon density, dry matter yield, and internode length (Piano and Annicchiarico, 1995). When ...