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Article: Growth of White Clover Ecotypes, Cultivars, and Germplasms in the Southeastern USA.
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- Crop Science
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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WHITE CLOVER is a vital component of permanent pasture systems in New Zealand and Great Britain, contributing to greater animal performance and reduced reliance on N fertilizer. In both these countries, pastures are dominated by plants with highly branched stolons and small- to medium-leaf size (Caradus et al., 1989; Davies and Young, 1967) primarily because continuous stocking favors this type of growth habit (Frame and Newbould, 1986). The high stolon density exhibited by these types is also required for improved vegetative persistence under grazing (Woodfield and Caradus, 1994). Where white clover ecotypes are found in pastures in the southeastern USA, plants also tend ...