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Article: Seasonal variation in morphology of continuously stocked white clover.
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- Crop Science
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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White clover persistence is dependent on vegetive proliferation of stolons in New Zealand (Chapman, 1987) and in the United Kingdom (Turkington et al., 1979), two countries with temperate climates recognized as having highly productive, permanent grass-legume pastures. Instead of being static, annual patterns of white clover growth and contribution to pasture dry matter yield in these environments are dynamic, influenced to a large extent by seasonal weather patterns. In New Zealand, Hay et al. (1991) reported that stolon length of white clover set-stocked with sheep was greatest in late spring and early summer and then declined to a minimum by late summer. Similarly, in ...