Sustainable Use of Genetic Diversity in Forage and Turf Breeding

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Grasslands and Forage Crops in France: Context and Stakes. Consequences for Breeding....Pages 3-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
A State of the Art of Germplasm Collections for Forage and Turf Species....Pages 17-28
Empirical Niche Modelling of the Spontaneous Diversity of Forage and Turf Species to Improve Collection and Ex Situ Conservation....Pages 29-40
The Genetic Diversity of Fine-Leaved Fescue ( Festuca L.) Species in Lithuania....Pages 41-45
Plant Collection in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan for Forage Improvement in Australia....Pages 47-59
Effect of Light Quality and Quantity on Leaf Growth in Lolium perenne L.....Pages 61-65
Genetic Variation in Lowland Switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum L.)....Pages 67-71
Morphological and Molecular Diversity of Branching in Red Clover ( Trifolium pratense )....Pages 73-77
Genotypic Differences in Symbiotic N 2 Fixation of Some Alfalfa ( Medicago sativa L.) Genotypes....Pages 79-84
Physiological and Genetic Diversity in Rhizobium sullae from Morocco....Pages 85-88
Genetic Diversity in Tall Fescue Using AFLP Markers....Pages 89-94
What are the Cellular Components Underlying the Genetic Diversity of Leaf Growth in Lolium perenne L.?....Pages 95-100
Evaluation and Utilization of Morphological Variation in a Medicago truncatula Core Collection....Pages 101-105
Genetic Diversity in a Collection of Lucerne Populations from the Mediterranean Basin Evaluated by SSR Markers....Pages 107-112
Drought Survival of Some Perennial Grasses in Moroccan Rainfed Conditions: Agronomic Traits....Pages 113-118
Drought Survival of Some Perennial Grasses in Moroccan Rainfed Conditions: Eco-physiological Traits....Pages 119-126
Forage and Seed Yield Components in Four French Landraces of Grass Pea ( Lathyrus sativus L.)....Pages 127-130
Development of Melilotus siculus – A New Salt and Waterlogging-tolerant Annual Fodder Legume Species for Mediterranean-type Climates....Pages 131-135
Domestication of New Mediterranean Annual Pasture Legumes....Pages 137-141
The Population Genetic Structure of Diploid Medicago sativa L. Germplasm....Pages 143-148
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Characterization and Preliminary Evaluation of Hedysarum coronarium L. Ecotypes in Mediterranean Environment....Pages 149-153
Phenotypic Assessment of Variability in Tillering and Early Development in Ryegrass ( Lolium spp.)....Pages 155-160
Agronomic Evaluation of Moroccan Ecotypes of Tall Fescue....Pages 161-166
The Czech Core Collection of Trifolium repens L.....Pages 167-172
Towards an Enhanced Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources in Grass Breeding by Characterization and Evaluation Trials....Pages 173-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Ecological and Population Genetic Concepts for Creating New Varieties....Pages 183-194
Selection of Spaced Plants of Perennial Ryegrass in Association with White Clover....Pages 195-198
Determination of Botanical Composition in Multispecies Forage Mixtures by Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy....Pages 199-203
Investigating the Competition for Water and the Depth of Water Extraction in Multispecies Grasslands Using 18 O Natural Abundance....Pages 205-209
Botanical and Genetic Change in Grass-clover Based Systems....Pages 211-216
Plasticity Versus Selection in Morphological Evolution of Populations. A Case Study of Lolium perenne L. Mini-swards....Pages 217-222
The Contribution of Hybrid Ryegrass ( Lolium x hybridum Hausskn) to Dry Matter Yield in Mixtures with Perennial Ryegrass....Pages 223-226
Characterisation of Variation in Condensed Tannin Levels and Persistence in Lotus spp.....Pages 227-231
Test and Selection of Festuca/Lolium Specific Markers for Festulolium Genetic Investigations....Pages 233-238
Forage Production of Grasslands Composed by One, Two or Three Varieties of Perennial Ryegrass....Pages 239-244
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Genetic Gain in Agronomic Value of Forage Crops and Turf: A Review....Pages 247-260
Review of the Protocols Used for Assessment of DUS and VCU in Europe – Perspectives....Pages 261-275
Modelling Adaptive Responses Across Agricultural Environments as a Prerequisite for Identifying Adaptive Traits and Plant Ideotypes....Pages 277-282
Evaluation of Drought Tolerance Variability in Mediterranean Alfalfa Cultivars in the Field Under Moroccan Conditions....Pages 283-287
Field Resistance of Festuca Rubra Varieties to Red Thread ( Laetisaria Fuciformis )....Pages 289-293
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Change in Agronomic Performance of Lolium perenne and Lolium multiflorum Varieties in the Past 40 Years Based on Data from Belgian VCU Trials....Pages 295-300
Impact of Four Decades of Breeding on Molecular Differentiation Between Forage and Turf Cultivars of Lolium Perenne ....Pages 301-305
Chemical Composition of the First Cut of Forage Ryegrass ( Lolium ) Species....Pages 307-311
Variability and Correlative Relations of Important Traits for Red Clover ( Trifolium pratense L.) Half Sib progenies....Pages 313-318
Genetic Diversity Within and Among Alfalfa Varieties for Some Traits....Pages 319-324
Genetic Improvement in Ryegrass ( Lolium perenne ) from Turf and Forage Breeding Over the Four Past Decades....Pages 325-330
The EUCARPIA Multi-Site Rust Evaluation – Results 2007....Pages 331-340
Dry Matter Production and Nutritive Value of Perennial Ryegrass Cultivars Collection....Pages 341-346
Variability and Correlation Between the Seed Yield, Seed Yield Components and Quality of Alfalfa Seed....Pages 347-352
Influence of Forage Species, Cultivar and Cut on Lipid Metabolism During the Ensiling Process....Pages 353-357
Variability of the Rumen Escape Protein and Fatty Acid Composition of Grass and Clover Species and Cultivars....Pages 359-364
Comparison of Different Low-Input Lignocellulosic Crops as Feedstock for Bio-ethanol Production....Pages 365-368
Occurrence of Colletotrichum trifolii (Bain et Essary), the Inducer of Alfalfa Anthracnose in Serbia....Pages 369-374
Resistance of Red Clover to Broad Spectrum of Sclerotinia trifoliorum ....Pages 375-380
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
Marker-assisted Selection in Forage Crops and Turf: A Review....Pages 383-390
Allelic Diversity for Candidate Genes and Association Studies: Methods and Results....Pages 391-396
Polyploidization and Gene Expression in Medicago sativa ....Pages 397-401
Characterization of Dehydrin Variants Linked to Freezing Tolerance in Alfalfa at the DNA and Post-transcriptional Levels....Pages 403-407
The Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Perennial Ryegrass ( Lolium perenne L.) Reveals Useful Polymorphisms Among European Ecotypes....Pages 409-413
Exploring the Potential for Translational Genomics Approaches in Forage Legumes: Regions of Highly Conserved Microsynteny Between White Clover and Medicago truncatula Revealed by BAC Sequencing....Pages 415-419
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
Plant Transcription Factors as Novel Molecular Markers for Legumes....Pages 421-425
From a Model to a Crop Species: Constans is Involved in Aerial Morphogenesis of Lucerne....Pages 427-431
QTL for Water Use Efficiency in Alfalfa....Pages 433-436
QTL Mapping of Aluminum Tolerance in Tetraploid Alfalfa....Pages 437-442
DArTFest – A Platform for High-Throughput Genome Profiling Within the Festuca – Lolium Complex....Pages 443-448
Vegetative Plant Height QTLs in Elite Perennial Ryegrass Material....Pages 449-454
Genotyping Unknown Genomic Terrain in Complex Plant Genomes....Pages 455-459
Fine Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci for Biomass Yield in Perennial Ryegrass....Pages 461-464
Testing a QTL Index for Marker Selection of Water-Soluble Carbohydrate Content in Perennial Ryegrass....Pages 465-469
Dissecting Festulolium Chromosome 3 to Locate Rooting and Drought Resistance Traits....Pages 471-477
Functional Analysis of Genes Involved in Cell Wall Biosynthesis of the Model Species Brachypodium distachyon to Improve Saccharification....Pages 479-482
Identification of Genes Induced in Lolium multiflorum by Bacterial Wilt Infection....Pages 483-487
Identification of QTLs Associated with Morphological and Agronomic Traits in White Clover ( Trifolium repens L.)....Pages 489-492
Front Matter....Pages 493-493
 Festulolium Hybrids: Results, Limits and Prospects....Pages 495-507
Creation of Heterotic Groups and Hybrid Varieties....Pages 509-518
Enhancing the Adaptation to Italian Environments of Egyptian Lucerne Germplasm for Exploitation as a Component of Free-hybrids....Pages 519-524
F1² Performance of Tetraploid Perennial Ryegrass on the Basis of the Composition of a Synthetic Variety....Pages 525-528
Seed Yield of New Festulolium Varieties Bred from F. Arundinacea Var. Glaucescens ....Pages 529-534
Production of Self-Fertile Interspecific Hybrids Between Lolium temulentum × Lolium multiflorum ....Pages 535-538
Introgression of Novel Traits into White Clover ( Trifolium repens L.) from Related Trifolium Species....Pages 539-543
Front Matter....Pages 493-493
Studies on the Expression of Exogenous CBF 4 Gene in Transgenic Wheatgrass....Pages 545-550
Heterotic Response from a Diallel Analysis between Alfalfa Cultivars of Different Geographic Origin....Pages 551-556
Using Bulk-Hybrids for Breeding Adapted Genotypes of Subterranean Clover....Pages 557-562
Fiber Content and Plant Development in Festulolium ....Pages 563-568
Identification of Heterotic Patterns in Perennial Ryegrass....Pages 569-572