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Article: Seed Production of White Clover Cultivars and Naturalized Populations when Grown in a Pasture.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Crop Science
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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MOST U.S. WHITE CLOVER breeding efforts during the last 50 yr have resulted in the release of large-type or ladino white clovers (Pederson, 1995). In the southeastern USA, these releases have included cultivats such as `Regal', `Osceola', `Tillman', and `Will' and germplasms SRVR and Brown Loam Syn. 2 (Caradus and Woodfield, 1997). Advantages of large-type over intermediate or small-type white clover include greater plant size, greater initial productivity, and improved summer persistence due to larger, thicker stolons. Since large-type cultivars have been the predominant type planted in southeastern USA grazing systems, it might be expected that most volunteer plants ...