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Article: Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Genotypic Changes in White Clover Populations by RAPD Technology.
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- Crop Science
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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WHITE CLOVER is an important functional component of temperate grazed ecosystems because of its N fixing ability and its high nutritional quality as animal feed. White clover, an obligately outcrossing tetraploid species, flowers prolifically during the growing season and produces significant amounts of seed that end up in the viable seed pool (Chapman and Anderson, 1987; Charlton, 1977; Silvertown and Lovett Doust, 1993). In spite of the high viable seed count in the soil (Tracy and Sanderson, 2000), few seeds germinate under field conditions, and few of those seedlings establish as plants (Barratt and Silander, 1992; Brink et al., 1999; Fothergill et al., 1997; Grime et ...