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Article: A soil-on-agar method to evaluate acid-soil resistance in white clover.
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- Crop Science
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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White clover is an important pasture legume, valued for its nutritive value and ability to fix nitrogen. In the Appalachian Region it is ubiquitous in well-managed, limed pastures. Most cultivars of white clover developed in the USA have large leaves (Pederson, 1995). Large-leafed white clovers are well adapted to mower defoliation but not to grazing by livestock (Voigt and Morris, 1995). In contrast, medium- and small-leafed white clovers are better adapted to grazing. This results not from leaf size per se, but from the morphological/physiological differences associated with leaf size, e.g., petiole length and stolon internode length and branching pattern.
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