Breeding perennial grasses for forage usage: An experimental assessment of trait changes in diploid perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) cultivars released in the last four decades

Field Crops Research

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-129

  Sampoux, Jean Paul ^a   Baudouin, Pierre ^b   Bayle, Bernard ^b   Béguier, Vincent ^b   Bourdon, Pierre ^b   Chosson, Jean François ^b   Deneufbourg, François ^c   Galbrun, Christophe ^b   Ghesquière, Marc ^a   Noël, Dominique ^b   Pietraszek, Wieslaw ^b   Tharel, Bernard ^b   Viguié, Anne ^b  

^a French Natl Inst Agr Res INRA   (France)

^b ACVF Association des Créateurs de Variétés Fourragères   (France)

^c Impasse du Verger ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Breeding; Cultivar; Forage crop; Genetic improvement; Perennial ryegrass; Whole plant yield

Indexed keywords

CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; DECADAL VARIATION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGE; GRASS; MORPHOLOGY; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHENOLOGY; PHYTOMASS; RUST DISEASE;

LOLIUM PERENNE; POACEAE;

EID: 79959339087     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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