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Article: Spatiotemporal genetic structure within white clover populations in grazed swards. (Genomics, Molecular Genetics & Biotechnology).
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- Crop Science
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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WHITE CLOVER fixes substantial amounts of N, has high nutritional quality as animal feed, and is therefore an important functional component of temperate grazed ecosystems. White clover is 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). Although high viable seed counts have been found in the soil (Chapman and Anderson, 1987; Tracy and Sanderson, 2000), few seeds germinate under field conditions, and few of those seedlings establish as white clover plants (Barrett and ...