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Article: Enhanced survival and animal performance from ecotype derived white clover cultivars.
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- Crop Science
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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WHITE CLOVER is the most widely used and persistent temperate pasture legume because of its aggressive stolons and reseeding ability. Among the cultivated types, there are three distinct, true breeding polymorphic forms: the small leaved, wild type (T. repens L. f. repens L.); the intermediate leaved, common type; and the large leaved, ladino type (Fick and Luckow, 1991; Pederson, 1995).
Most white clover breeding projects in the USA have centered on developing cultivars of ladino white clover. Ladino types are high yielding because of their large leaves and erect growth habit, but possess a low number of stolons compared to the stolon dense, intermediate types ...