Breeding in a World of Scarcity: Proceedings of the 2015 Meeting of the Section “Forage Crops and Amenity Grasses” of Eucarpia

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Breeding Forages to Cope with Environmental Challenges in the Light of Climate Change and Resource Limitations....Pages 3-13
Performance of Diploid and Tetraploid Perennial Ryegrass Synthetics with Variable Numbers of Parents....Pages 15-19
Phenotyping Genetic Diversity of Perennial Ryegrass Ecotypes (Lolium perenne L.)....Pages 21-27
An Assessment of Phenotypic Diversity Within a Collection of Natural Lolium perenne Ecotypes and Cultivars from Across Europe....Pages 29-33
Comparative Characteristics of Newly Developed Perennial Ryegrass Varieties in Bulgaria....Pages 35-40
Variation for Plant Architecture Traits Within a Perennial Ryegrass Association Mapping Population....Pages 41-45
Extent of Crown Rust Infection in a Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) Association Mapping Population....Pages 47-52
The EUCARPIA Multi-site Rust Evaluation − 2013 Results....Pages 53-62
Variation in Drought Tolerance of Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)....Pages 63-68
Toward a Standard Test for Summer Dormancy in Tall Fescue....Pages 69-73
White Clover (Trifolium repens L.) Germplasm Selection for Abiotic Stress Tolerance from Naturalized Populations Collected in the Southern Regions of Chile....Pages 75-79
Evaluation of Orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) Autochthonous Serbian Germplasm in Pre-breeding....Pages 81-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-97
Towards Model-Assisted Evaluation of Perennial Ryegrass Varieties....Pages 99-99
Real-Time Growth Analysis of Perennial Ryegrass Under Water Limiting Conditions....Pages 101-104
UAV-Based Remote Sensing for Evaluation of Drought Tolerance in Forage Grasses....Pages 105-109
Association Analysis of Candidate Genes with Tillering in Perennial Ryegrass....Pages 111-116
Genomic Variation in the FT Gene Family of Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne)....Pages 117-120
Genotyping by Sequencing in Autotetraploid Cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata) without a Reference Genome....Pages 121-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-131
Development of Genomic Selection for Perennial Ryegrass....Pages 133-137
Alfalfa Genomic Selection: Challenges, Strategies, Transnational Cooperation....Pages 99-99
Efficient Doubled Haploid Production in Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)....Pages 139-143
Testing a Pollen-Parent Fecundity Distribution Model on Seed-Parent Fecundity Distributions in Bee-Pollinated Forage Legume Polycrosses....Pages 145-149
Single-Marker Assisted Introgression of Crown Rust Resistance in an Italian Ryegrass Breeding Program....Pages 151-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-161
Current Status of Feed Quality Breeding and Testing in North America....Pages 163-167
Important Feeding Value Parameters in Ruminant Nutrition....Pages 169-169
Comparing Juvenile Development of Perennial Ryegrass, Meadow Fescue and Different Hybrid Generations....Pages 171-177
Enhancing the Productivity in Forage Grasses on the European Scale using Interspecific Hybridization....Pages 179-186
Comparison of Lucerne Genotypes and Varieties in Pure and Mixed Stands....Pages 187-192
Optimizing Species and Variety Choice in Legume–Cereal Mixtures as Forage Crops in a Dry Mediterranean Region....Pages 193-197
Yield of Forage Pea-Cereal Intercropping Using Three Seed Ratios at Two Maturity Stages....Pages 199-204
Association Mapping of LpCCR1 with Lignin Content and Cell Wall Digestibility of Perennial Ryegrass....Pages 205-208
Marker-Trait Associations for Flavonoids and Biomass in White Clover (Trifolium repens L.)....Pages 209-213
Breeding for Improved Nonstructural Carbohydrates in Alfalfa....Pages 215-218
Breeding of Alfalfa ‘Lines’ with Divergent Earliness....Pages 219-224
Generative Development in Red Clover in Response to Temperature and Photoperiod....Pages 225-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-235
Improving the Focus of Forage Breeding Research....Pages 237-241
Metabolomics for Methane Mitigation: A Case Study in Biserrula (Biserrula pelecinus L.)....Pages 243-247
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Silica Content, Leaf Softness and Digestibility in Tall Fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.)....Pages 251-269
Parameters Influencing Preference by Sheep in Soft Leaved Tall Fescue Genotypes....Pages 271-275
Are Corolla Tube Dimensions the Reason for Low Seed Yield in Tetraploid Red Clover?....Pages 249-249
Front Matter....Pages 277-281
Workshop “Phenotyping”....Pages 283-287
Workshop “Genomic Selection and Association Mapping”....Pages 289-292
Feeding Value Evaluation in Grass and Legume Breeding and Variety Testing: Report of a Debate....Pages 293-297
Report of the Breeding Debate....Pages 299-299
Breeding Ideas Presented During the Meeting....Pages 301-302
Fifth Workshop of the Eucarpia Festulolium Working Group....Pages 303-305
Report of the Eucarpia Multisite Rust Evaluation Working Group....Pages 307-311
Back Matter....Pages 313-319
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