Alternative forages can be used to provide valuable home-grown feed for ruminant livestock. Utilising these different forages could affect the manure value and the implications of incorporating these forages into farming systems, needs to be better understood. An experiment tested the hypothesis that applying slurries from ruminants, fed ensiled red clover (Trifolium pratense), lucerne (Medicag...

Legumes of the genera Astragalus (milkvetch), Coronilla (crownvetch), Lathyrus (pea vine), Lotus (birdsfoot trefoil), Medicago (alfalfa), Melilotus (clover), Trifolium (clover), and Vicia (common vetch) were inoculated with a population of Melaidogyne chitwoodi from Utah or with one of three M. hapla populations from California, Utah, and Wyoming.Thirty-nine percent to 86% of alfalfa (M. scutel...

Red clover ( L.) is a cool-season forage legume grown throughout the northeastern United States and is the most widely planted forage legume after alfalfa ( L.). Red clover provides high-value feed to the livestock because of high protein content and easy digestibility. To date, genomic resources for red clover are scarce. In the current study, a de novo transcriptome assembly of red clover was...

Abstract Background Red clover ( Trifolium pratense ) is globally used as a fodder plant due its high nutritional value and soil improving qualities. In response to mowing, red exhibits specific morphological traits compensate the loss of biomass. The reaction well described, but underlying molecular mechanisms role for plants grown in field are unclear. Results Here, we characterize global tra...

Cropping sequences integrating perennial forages and annual crops can generate multidimensional agroeconomic environmental benefits. A 4-yr cropping sequence study was conducted from 2013 to 2016 evaluate the relative merits of various sequences. Three forage seed (creeping red fescue [Festuca rubra L.], alsike clover [Trifolium hybridum pratense L.]) four food (wheat [Triticum aestivum canola ...

A recycling of Phosphorus (P) from the human food chain is mandatory to secure future P supply for production. However, many available recycled fertilizers sewage sludge do not have an adequate bioavailability and, thus, are suitable their application in soils with pH >5.5–6.0, unless being combined efficient mobilization measures. The aim study was test ability red clover (Trifolium pratense L...