The Alfalfa Management Guide is designed especially for busy growers, with to-the-point recommendations, useful images of diseased plants and pests, and quick-reference tables and charts. Revised in 2011, this edition of Alfalfa Management Guide covers the latest strategies for alfalfa establishment, production, and harvest-soil testing, fertilizing, integrated pest management, rotation, and more.
How to grow great alfalfa and other forages. Growing a healthy stand, promoting vigorous forage growth through soil life, weed control and balanced soil fertility. Describing when forages should be cut (pre-bloom, first bloom or mid-bloom). This book shows how to measure forage quality.
World Distribution and Historical Developments -- Morphology and Anatomy -- The flower Sterility Mechanisms and Pollination Control -- Energy Accumulation and Utilization -- Environmental Physiology -- Cold Drought and Heat Tolerance -- Relationships with Other Species in a Mixture -- Nodulation and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation -- Chemical Composition of Herbage -- Genetics and Breeding Procedures -- Breeding for Forage Yield and Quality -- Breeding for Disease Resistance -- Highlights in the United States -- Breeding for Nematode Resistance -- Breeding for Insect Resistance -- Adaptation Varieties and Usage -- Establishing the Stand -- Nutrition and Fertilizer Use -- Water Relationships and Irrigation -- Cutting Schedules and Maintaining Pure Stands -- Diseases -- Insects and Related Pests -- Taxonomy and Cytogenetics of Medicago -- Weeds and Weed Control -- Equipment for Harvesting Storing and Feeding -- Feeding Value and On-farm Feeding -- Role in Feedlot Feeding -- Pasture Production and Utilization -- Processed Products for Feed and Food Industries -- Seed Characteristics -- Seed Production Practices -- The Seed Industry -- Highlights of Research Around the World -- Future Trends in the United States -- Index -- Cytology and Evolution of the Medicago sativa-falcata Complex -- Front Matter.
This comprehensive guide for western alfalfa growers brings together the most current information and recommendations in nearly all areas of alfalfa management, including stand establishment, fertilization, irrigation, pest management, and harvesting
[A publication designed to provide detailed, scientifically-based comprehensive information about the growth, production, management, and utilization of alfalfa grown under irrigation].
This book is the first comprehensive compilation of deliberations on whole genome sequencing of the diploid and tetraploid alfalfa genomes including sequence assembly, gene annotation, and comparative genomics with the model legume genome, functional genomics, and genomics of important agronomic characters. Other chapters describe the genetic diversity and germplasm collections of alfalfa, as well as development of genetic markers and genome-wide association and genomic selection for economical important traits, genome editing, genomics, and breeding targets to address current and future needs. Altogether, the book contains about 300 pages over 16 chapters authored by globally reputed experts on the relevant field in this crop. This book is useful to the students, teachers, and scientists in the academia and relevant private companies interested in genetics, breeding, pathology, physiology, molecular genetics and breeding, biotechnology, and structural and functional genomics. The work is also useful to seed and forage industries.
