White clover (Trifolium repens) is the key legume component of New Zealand pastoral agriculture due to the high quality feed and nitrogen inputs it provides. Invertebrate pests constrain white clover growth and this study investigated rhizosphere-associated fungal controls for two of these pests and attempts to disentangle the underpinning mechanisms. The degree of suppressiveness of 10 soils, ...

HE selfand cross-incompatibilities of a number of obligately cross-polliT nated species of flowering plants are genetically determined by series of multiple oppositional alleles. The oppositional or personate incompatibility system was first described, with substantiating data, by EAST and MANGELSDORF (1925) for Nicotiana species. The existence of oppositional alleles has been subsequently demo...

Binary- and multi-species sown mixtures may increase herbage yield and/or reduce inorganic nitrogen (N) requirement compared to perennial ryegrass (PRG) (Lolium perenne L.) swards. A split-plot design was used compare yields of binary- single-species swards three grasses red clover managed for intensive silage production under varying N application rates. Perennial Italian multiflorum Lam.) rye...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) confer positive and negative effects on many plants, but it is unclear whether AMF has an effect soil fertility, aggregate distribution, stability. The aim of this study was to analyze the Rhizoglomus intraradices plant growth, root morphology, leaf chlorophyll gas exchange, sugar concentrations, nutrients, stability in marigold (Tagetes erecta L.), maize (Zea...

Enod40 is one of the genes associated with legume nodule development and has a putative role in general plant organogenesis. We have isolated a small enod40 gene family from white clover (Trifolium repens), with three genes designated Trenod40-1, Trenod40-2, and Trenod40-3, all containing the conserved enod40 regions I and II. Trenod40-1 and Trenod40-2 share over 90% homology in the transcribed...

House crickets (Acheta domesticus) are increasingly being used as food. This has the potential for a more efficient food production that also may benefit agroecosystems. As first study to compare feeds based on European wild flowering plants feed house we examined five common known support biodiversity of insects (white clover (Trifolium repens), white nettle (Lamium album), (Urtica dioica), ro...