Alongside the use of fertilizer and chemical control of weeds, pests, and diseases modern
breeding has been very successful in generating cultivars that have increased agricultural …

Increasing crop** system diversity has great potential to address environmental problems
associated with modern agriculture, such as erosion, soil carbon loss, nutrient runoff, water …

Aims Growers in northern US regions rely on winter annual legume cover crop symbiotic
nitrogen fixation (SNF) to reduce the need for spring fertilization and build soil organic …

Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa ssp. villosa Roth) is native of Europe and Western Asia and it is the
second most cultivated vetch worldwide. Hairy vetch is used as forage species in semiarid …

Forage legumes are key components of livestock rations whether grazed or harvested as
hay or silage. The predominant forage legumes grown in humid regions of the US, Canada …

Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth) and smooth vetch (V. villosa Roth var. glabrescens) are
important cover crops and legume forage with great economic and ecological values. Due to …

Abstract. The expansive range of Lewis flax (Linum lewisii), an herbaceous perennial,
exposes the species to a diversity of climatic conditions. As interest in the domestication and …

Core Ideas Early‐season biomass is conventionally phenotyped by subjective visual
estimates. RGB image data are highly predictive of biomass in hairy vetch breeding plots …

ABSTRACT Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth) is a commonly grown legume cover crop in the
United States. Critical breeding goals for the species include increasing early fall vigor and …

Abstract The Rolling Plains of Texas are historically semi‐arid with sporadic, high intensity
storms followed by periods of long drought. Fallow management is a common practice …