Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Boller, Beat. (Editor), Posselt, Ulrich K. (Editor), Veronesi, Fabio. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Handbook of Plant Breeding ; 5
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Botany.; Plant breeding.; Plant physiology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Physiology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0760-8

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:

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction: The Role of forage crops in multi-functional agriculture
• Chapter 2: Genetic resources
• Chapter 3: Breeding methods in cross-pollinating species
• Chapter 4: Molecular tools and biotechnology
• Chapter 5: Breeding objectives in forages
• Chapter 6: Breeding objectives in amenity grasses
• Chapter 7: Breeding for seed yield
• Chapter 8: Release and distribution of cultivars
• Chapter 9: Future developments and uses
• Crop Specific Chapters
• Chapter 10: Ryegrasses
• Chapter 11: Fescues
• Chapter 12: Festulolium
• Chapter 13: Cocksfoot
• Chapter 14: Timothy
• Chapter 15: Bluegrasses
• Chapter 16: Minor grass species
• Chapter 17: Alfalfa
• Chapter 18: Red clover
• Chapter 19: White clover
• Chapter 20: Minor legume species
• Index.