Genetic Diversity Within and Among Alfalfa Varieties for Some Traits

Radovic, J.; Sokolović, D.; Lugić, Z.; Anđelković, Snežana; Štrbanović, Ratibor

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8706-5_45

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“…Considerable that, scientific efforts has been and is being devoted annually to improvement of both yield and quality of alfalfa. Variability for agronomic and morphological traits of alfalfa is frequently used in breeding program for developing cultivars with high forage production and quality (Jullier et al, 2000;Radović et al, 2001;Radović et al, 2009). As a result, numerous alfalfa cultivars have been created in last fifty years.…”

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“…Domestic alfalfa cultivars were created in Institute for forage crops in Krusevac, Center in Zajecar and Institute for field and vegetable crops in Novi Sad. They are characterized by high genetic potential for green and dry matter yield (over to 20 t ha -1 DM), excellent tolerance to environment stress conditions, which is responsible for stable and high forage yield during entire exploitation period (Đukić et al, 2007;Radović et al, 2007). Domestic cultivars get higher yield, and better field persistence than introduced cultivars (Radović et al,1997;Radović et al, 2004;Stanisavljević et al, 2008).…”

Section: Table 2 Average Alfalfa Yield In Second and Third Year Of Umentioning

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Alfalfa-most important perennial forage legume in animal husbandry

2009

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Important role of alfalfa in development of animal husbandry, is based on high potential for production of biomass. Reaching of high green (over 80 t ha-1) and dry matter yield (approx. 20 t ha-1) with low investment during all period of utilization makes alfalfa production very economical. Divergent selection materials were used to create high productive domestic alfalfa cultivars with excellent field persistence, which is important factor for high and stable yield during entire exploitation period. On the other hand, alfalfa is a rich source of crude protein with excellent digestibility. Proteins from alfalfa herbage are the cheapest source of protein in animal feed. Content of crude protein strongly depend on development stage of plant material and can be 200 to 240 g kg-1 DM, while crude protein yield can be over 3.5 t ha-1. Besides that, alfalfa herbage had a high content of macro and micro element, which are so important for animal health. It is usually grown in pure stand, although it's a good component of grass-legumes mixtures. Alfalfa biomass can be used in several ways, usually as hay, but also as high quality silages, haylages, dehydrated in form of briquettes or by grazing. Symbiotic N 2 fixation gives alfalfa not just economical, but very high ecological importance, too. It's a reason why alfalfa, besides important role in conventional husbandry is getting great role in sustainable agriculture and organic production. All those characteristics confirm, that alfalfa is a really "queen" of forages.

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Section: Herbage Productionmentioning

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Section: Table 2 Average Alfalfa Yield In Second and Third Year Of Umentioning

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Alfalfa-most important perennial forage legume in animal husbandry

2009

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“…backgrounds (Radovic et al, 2010). Alfalfa is an autotetraploid (2n=4x=32) (Stanford, 1951;Armstrong, 1954;Demarly, 1954), allogamous seed-propagated species.…”

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Implications of rbcL and rpoC1 DNA Barcoding in Phylogenetic Relationships of some Egyptian Medicago sativa L. Cultivars

El-Sherif

Ibrahim

2020

Egypt. J. Bot.

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“…Alfalfa originated from the Mediterranean basin and southwest Asia and was one of the first forage crops to be domesticated (Cook et al, 2005). It is cultivated in more than 80 countries in an area exceeding 35 million ha (Radovic et al, 2009). Alfalfa has good adaptability to different environmental conditions due to its variable genetic base (Radovic et al, 2009).…”

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“…It is cultivated in more than 80 countries in an area exceeding 35 million ha (Radovic et al, 2009). Alfalfa has good adaptability to different environmental conditions due to its variable genetic base (Radovic et al, 2009). Due to its high nutritional quality, alfalfa is one of the most important legume forages of the world.…”

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Evaluation of morphological and anatomical characters for discrimination and verification of some <italic>Medicago sativa</italic> (L.) Cultivars

Moawed

2016

IJARe

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<italic>Medicago sativa</italic> L. (alfalfa) is one of the most important legume forages in the world. The objective of this study was to characterize and discriminate among 15 alfalfa cultivars with a different geographical origin. Macro-morphological and anatomical characters as well as seed coat sculpture were investigated. Twenty five morphological characters were extracted directly from the fresh specimens. Transverse section in the main stem were carried out; stained and seventeen anatomical characters were examined by light microscope. Seed coat surface was investigated using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Data obtained were coded and analysed using NTsys-Pc software (Version 2.02) and the resulted dendrogram is discussed. The results showed morphological and anatomical variation between the studied taxa. Vascular bundles ranged from 16 to 23. The Egyptian cultivar Nubaria has the lowest number of vessels (16) while the American Super supreme has the larger number (23). The seed coat ornamentation revealed five main surface patterns and suggests the presence of variations in anticlinal boundaries and periclinal walls that provide stable diagnostic characters for morphologically closely related taxa. The dendrogram showed that the Egyptian cultivar Nubaria was the most distant and clustered separately from all the other alfalfa cultivars which were grouped into two main clusters. Seed coat morphology and combination of other plant morphological and anatomical characters permitted identification and discrimination between the examined cultivars. Results obtained in this work could be considered for further breeding strategies and studies.

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Genetic Diversity Within and Among Alfalfa Varieties for Some Traits

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Alfalfa-most important perennial forage legume in animal husbandry

Alfalfa-most important perennial forage legume in animal husbandry

Implications of rbcL and rpoC1 DNA Barcoding in Phylogenetic Relationships of some Egyptian Medicago sativa L. Cultivars

Evaluation of morphological and anatomical characters for discrimination and verification of some <italic>Medicago sativa</italic> (L.) Cultivars

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