Grasslands in 'Old World'and 'New World'Mediterranean‐climate zones: past trends, current status and future research priorities

C Porqueddu, S Ates, M Louhaichi… - Grass and Forage …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite their ecological, economic and social importance, grasslands in areas with
Mediterranean climates continue to receive limited scientific, political and media attention …

Grass and legume breeding matching the future needs of European grassland farming

OA Rognli, L Pecetti, MR Kovi… - Grass and Forage …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Plant breeding can be pivotal to produce new grassland varieties with better adaptation to
changes in seasonal pattern and increased variability of temperature, precipitation and …

Rhizosphere carboxylates and morphological root traits in pasture legumes and grasses

DR Kidd, MH Ryan, RE Haling, H Lambers, GA Sandral… - Plant and Soil, 2016 - Springer
Aims The legumes most often used in temperate pastures such as Trifolium subterraneum
have relatively high external P requirements for maximum growth. We investigated root traits …

Field benchmarking of the critical external phosphorus requirements of pasture legumes for southern Australia

GA Sandral, A Price, SM Hildebrand… - Crop and Pasture …, 2019 - CSIRO Publishing
In recent decades several pasture legumes have been available in southern Australia as
potential alternatives to the most widely used annual pasture legume Trifolium …

An improved reference genome for Trifolium subterraneum L. provides insight into molecular diversity and intra-specific phylogeny

K Shirasawa, R Moraga, A Ghelfi, H Hirakawa… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L., Ts) is a geocarpic, self-fertile annual forage
legume with a compact diploid genome (n= x= 8, 544 Mb/1C). Its resilience and climate …

Patchy landscapes support more plant diversity and ecosystem services than wood grasslands in Mediterranean silvopastoral agroforestry systems

S Bagella, MC Caria, G Seddaiu, L Leites… - Agricultural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Plant diversity and proxy indicators of ecosystem services were assessed for three structural
components of Mediterranean silvopastoral agroforestry systems: WL= cork oak woodlands …

Flowering responses of serradella (Ornithopus spp.) and subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.) to vernalisation and photoperiod and their role in maturity …

LE Goward, RE Haling, RW Smith… - Crop and Pasture …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Serradellas (Ornithopus spp.) are promising alternative annual legumes to
subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.), for permanent, temperate pastures …

Phenolic Content and Antioxidant Activity in Trifolium Germplasm from Different Environments

A Tava, Ł Pecio, R Lo Scalzo, A Stochmal, L Pecetti - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Phenolics are important mediators in plant-environment interactions. The presence and
concentration of phenolic compounds and their antioxidant activity were evaluated in leaves …

Draft genome sequence of subterranean clover, a reference for genus Trifolium

H Hirakawa, P Kaur, K Shirasawa, P Nichols… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Clovers (genus Trifolium) are widely cultivated across the world as forage legumes and
make a large contribution to livestock feed production and soil improvement. Subterranean …

Morphological diversity within a core collection of subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.): Lessons in pasture adaptation from the wild

AI Abdi, PGH Nichols, P Kaur, BJ Wintle, W Erskine - PloS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.) is a diploid self-pollinated annual pasture
legume native to the Mediterranean region and widely sown in southern Australia and other …