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Article: Response to Leaf Inoculations with Macrophomina phaseolina in White Clover.
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- Crop Science
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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STOLONS are the means by which individual white clover genotypes persist in the field. The seedling taproot system only survives for the first year or two of growth. When the taproot, primary stem, and basal portion of the stolons die, plant survival is entirely dependent on new stolon growth from the terminal ends. Individual stolons from the same plant are genetically identical, but may no longer be connected. New growth and branching continues at the stolon tips while the older basal portion of the stolon dies. The genotype will survive as long as new stolon growth at the tip exceeds the progression of necrosis from the basal end.
White clover plants face a ...