Classification of a world collection of white clover cultivars

✍ Scribed by J. R. Caradus; A. C. MacKay; D. R. Woodfield; J. Bosch; S. Wewala

• Book ID: 104620087
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 798 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0014-2336
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00042631

✦ Synopsis

Morphology, flowering, cyanogenesis and leaf markings of 109 white clover (Trifolium repens L .) cultivars, grown as spaced plants and in small plots, were measured . Principal component analysis and cluster analysis were used to compare cultivars . Cultivars were classified into four broad groups . The most important criteria for distinguishing between groups were leaf size, cyanogenesis and combinations of these . Group I, termed small, included small-leaved, prostrate cultivars ; Group II, termed intermediate, included the majority of the cultivars which were characterised by medium sized leaves and relatively low cyanogenesis levels ; Group III, termed large, included the large-leaved highly cyanogenic cultivars ; and Group IV, termed ladino, included large-leaved acyanogenic cultivars .