Selection for root hair length in white clover (Trifolium repensL.)

✍ Scribed by J. R. Caradus

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 305 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0014-2336
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00056609

✦ Synopsis

Results are given which show that the root hair length of a white clover population can be increased and decreased by selection. An increase of 50 #m in root hair length over the mean of an unselected population of the cultivar Tamar was achieved resulting in an 11 ~o calculated increase in the volume of soil explored by root hairs. The realised heritability for selection in the long root hairs was 0.33, and for the short root hairs 0.44.