Author: United States Department Of Agriculture

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-11

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780260782571

Excerpt from Improved Breeding Lines of Alfalfa Along with the increase in the number of criteria has come an increase in the complexity of these traits. Alfalfa hay and seed acreages and values are increasing; therefore, alfalfa breeding as a commercial enterprise has grown rapidly within the past 20 years. There is a new sophistication in our approach to breeding alfalfa and an increasing knowledge in the application of genetic principles to plant breeding and to the development of improved cultivars. The rapid increase in the number of characteristics needing improvement has increased the need for more cultivars to fit into regional or local production environ ments. Individual research programs cannot practically develop and maintain the expertise for improving the increasing number of characteristics recognized as important in modern cultivars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.