Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses
Grassland provides the forage basis to feed ruminant animals for the production of meat and milk ever since their domestication. With the introduction of improved crop rotations at the end of the sixteenth century, grasses and legumes began to be also gro
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Beat Boller Ulrich K. Posselt Fabio Veronesi Editors
Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses
HANDBOOK OF PLANT BREEDING Editors-in-Chief: JAIME PROHENS, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain FERNANDO NUEZ, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain MARCELO J. CARENA, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA
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Beat Boller · Ulrich K. Posselt · Fabio Veronesi Editors
Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses
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Editors Beat Boller Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART Reckenholzstr. 191 8046 Zürich Switzerland [email protected]
Ulrich K. Posselt Universität Hohenheim Inst. Pflanzenzüchtung Fruwirthstr. 21 70593 Stuttgart Germany [email protected]
Fabio Veronesi Università degli Studi di Perugia Dpto. di Biologia Vegetale e Biotecnologie Agroambientali Borgo XX Giugno, 74 06121 Perugia Italy [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0759-2 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0760-8 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0760-8 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009940383 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Grassland farming in Europe was already established during the settlement of the first farmers together with their domesticated animals after the last ice age. Since then, grassland provides the forage basis to feed ruminant animals for the production of meat and milk. Depending on the ecological conditions and intensity of usage, various plant communities with different species developed, displaying a rich biodiversity. With the introduction of improved crop rotations at the end of the 16th century, grasses and legumes were also grown to an important extent as forage crops on arable land. In the last decades the importance of amenity grasses increased markedly, due to the demand of the society f
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