Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Boller, Beat (Editor), Posselt, Ulrich K. (Editor), Veronesi, Fabio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Handbook of Plant Breeding ; 5
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant genetics.; Plant physiology.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Physiology.

Grassland provides the forage basis to feed ruminant animals for the production of meat and milk ever since their domestication. With the introduction of improved crop rotations at the end of the sixteenth century, grasses and legumes began to be also grown to an important extent as forage crops on...

Table of Contents:

• The Role of Forage Crops in Multifunctional Agriculture
• Genetic Resources
• Breeding Methods in Cross-Pollinated Species
• Development and Application of Biotechnological and Molecular Genetic Tools
• Breeding Objectives in Forages
• Breeding Objectives in Amenity Grasses
• Breeding for Grass Seed Yield
• Control of Cultivar Release and Distribution
• Future Developments and Uses
• Ryegrasses
• Fescues
• Festulolium
• Cocksfoot
• Timothy
• Bluegrasses
• Minor Grass Species
• Alfalfa
• Red Clover
• White Clover
• Minor Legume Species
• Erratum To: Breeding Methods in Cross-Pollinated Species.