Breeding strategies for sustainable forage and turf grass improvement

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
What Global and/or European Agriculture Will Need from Grasslands and Grassland Breeding over the Next 10–15 Years for a Sustainable Agriculture....Pages 3-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Marker Assisted Selection Made Cheap and Easy....Pages 21-27
Genome-Wide SNP Marker Development and QTL Identification for Genomic Selection in Red Clover....Pages 29-36
Breeding for Resistance to Bacterial Wilt in Ryegrass: Insights into the Genetic Control of Plant Resistance and Pathogen Virulence....Pages 37-46
Mechanisms Utilised Within the IBERS Diploid Lolium perenne L. Forage Grass Breeding Programmes to Improve Rumen Nitrogen Use Efficiency....Pages 47-53
Population Genetics of the Grass Self-incompatibility System—Practical Implications for Grass Breeding Programmes....Pages 55-61
Use of Molecular Marker Information in the Construction of Polycrosses to Enhance Yield in a Lolium perenne Breeding Programme....Pages 63-67
An Analysis of Chromosome Pairing Behaviour in Newly Synthesized Alfalfa Tetraploids by Means of SSR Markers....Pages 69-74
Genome Constitution in Selected and Unselected Plants of F 2 –F 4 Generations Derived from an Allotetraploid Festuca pratensis × Lolium perenne Hybrid....Pages 75-79
Estimation of Temporal Allele Frequency Changes in Ryegrass Populations Selected for Axillary Tiller Development....Pages 81-87
Understanding the Genetic Basis for Slow Plant-Mediated Proteolysis in Festulolium Hybrids....Pages 89-95
Chromosomal Rearrangements in BC 1 Progeny Obtained from Crosses of Tetraploid F. pratensis × L. perenne Hybrids with Tetraploid L . perenne ....Pages 97-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Establishing Chromosome Genomics in Forage and Turf Grasses....Pages 105-113
DArTFest DNA Array—Applications and Perspectives for Grass Genetics, Genomics and Breeding....Pages 115-119
Using DArT Markers in Festuca × Lolium Breeding....Pages 121-129
Development of an SNP Identification Pipeline for Highly Heterozygous Crops....Pages 131-139
First Insights into the Mitochondrial Genome of Perennial Ryegrass ( Lolium perenne )....Pages 141-145
Quantifying Early Vigour and Ground Cover using Digital Image Analysis....Pages 147-153
Expression of the Lolium perenne Terminal Flower 1 Gene in Alfalfa and Tobacco....Pages 155-160
Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Branching in Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)....Pages 161-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Designing Grass Cultivars for Droughts and Floods....Pages 171-179
Variation and Heritability of α-Linolenic Acid Content and Rumen Escape Protein Fraction in Fodder Grass and Clover....Pages 181-188
Similarities and Differences in Leaf Proteome Response to Cold Acclimation Between Festuca pratensis and Lolium perenne ....Pages 189-195
Multi-population QTL Detection for Flowering Time, Stem Elongation and Quality Traits in Medicago truncatula ....Pages 197-202
Role of the RCT1 Gene in Anthracnose Resistance in Alfalfa....Pages 203-208
The EUCARPIA Multi-site Rust Evaluation—Results 2010....Pages 209-217
The Main Topics of Resistance Breeding in Grasses in the Czech Republic....Pages 219-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Origins of Diploid Dactylis from the Canary Islands as Determined by DNA Sequencing....Pages 225-229
Introduction and Adaptation of Cynodon L. C. Rich Species in Australia....Pages 231-237
Variation in Traits Associated with Carbon Sequestration for a Range of Common Amenity Grass Species....Pages 239-244
Suitability of Grass Species for Phytoremediation of Soils Polluted with Heavy-metals....Pages 245-248
Targeting Lucerne Cultivars to Saline-soil Environments....Pages 249-253
Comparison of Seed Mixtures for Technical Revegetation at High Altitude....Pages 255-260
Genetic Diversity for Cell Wall Digestibility in a Diverse Lolium perenne Collection....Pages 261-267
Variability Among Accessions of Forage Vetch for Basic Agronomic and Morphological Traits under Agro-Ecological Conditions of Serbia....Pages 269-273
Genetic Variation of Root Characteristics and Deep Root Production in Perennial Ryegrass Cultivars Contrasting in Field Persistency....Pages 275-281
The Study of Similarities Among Medicago sativa L. Accessions....Pages 283-287
Genetic Structure and Agronomic Value of Italian Lucerne Landraces: A Synopsis....Pages 289-294
The Use of Genebank Accessions in the Breeding Programme of Lolium perenne ....Pages 295-299
Characterization and Evaluation of Genebank Accessions as a Pre-selection Instrument for Plant Breeding Objectives and Strategies....Pages 301-305
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Exploitation of ‘Site-Specific’ Alpine Grass Germplasm for Revegetation at High Altitude....Pages 307-311
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
The Impact of Perennial Ryegrass Variety Throughout the Growing Season on in vitro Rumen Methane Output....Pages 315-321
Origin and Yield of European Perennial Ryegrass ( Lolium perenne L.) Varieties in Ireland....Pages 323-326
Yield Dynamics and Quality in White Clover and Perennial Ryegrass in the First cut of the Establishment Year....Pages 327-332
Influence of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria on Alfalfa, Medicago sativa L. yield by Inoculation of a Preceding Italian Ryegrass, Lolium multiflorum Lam....Pages 333-339
Optimal Plant Type of Pea for Mixed Cropping with Cereals....Pages 341-346
Dry Matter Recovery and Aerobic Stability of Maize Whole-Crop, Cob and Stover Silages—Harvest Date and Cultivar Effects....Pages 347-351
Performance of Forage Soya Bean ( Glycine max ) Cultivars in the Northern Balkans....Pages 353-358
Effects of Trinexapac-Ethyl (Moddus) on Seed Yields and Its Quality of Eleven Temperate Grass Species....Pages 359-363
The Chemical Composition of a Range of Forage Grasses Grown Under Two Nitrogen Fertiliser Inputs and Harvested at Different Stages of Maturity....Pages 365-370
NIRS Calibration Strategies for the Botanical Composition of Grass-Clover Mixtures....Pages 371-375
Comparison of LOCAL and GLOBAL Calibration Models to Predict Ryegrass Quality Using Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy....Pages 377-382
Grass for Biogas Production—Anaerobic Methane Production from Five Common Grassland Species at Sequential Stages of Maturity....Pages 383-388
Back Matter....Pages 351-351