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In UK agriculture, forage grasses are invariably grown in mixtures composed of different varieties and species. A study was carried out to estimate the contribution of varying amounts of hybrid ryegrass to the performance ...

Proteins from forage legumes are often poorly utilized by ruminants. Indeed, they are too rapidly degraded in the rumen to be efficiently absorbed in the intestine. However, the condensed tannins, secondary metabolites ...

All papers of EGF conferences are peer reviewed, edited and published as hard cover. Since 1996, the proceedings appear as successive volumes in the EGF series 'Grassland Science in Europe'.

Interspecific hybrids have been developed between white clover and the annual, profuse flowering diploid species Trifolium nigrescens Viv.(ball clover) as a strategy to improve the seed yield of white clover. Third generation ...

Water-soluble carbohydrate provides an easily fermentable energy source in perennial ryegrass fodder. Previously the considerable genetic variation available within the species has been characterised by quantitative trait ...