Genetic Improvement of Berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum) in India: Current Status and Prospects

Singh, Tejveer; Radhakrishna, A.; Nayak, Dipak; Malaviya, D. R.

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2019.801.322

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“…Suitable feeding and proper nutrition work as strategic factor for livestock, improving their qualitative and quantitative production on a sustainable base. Because of limited land resources and the substantially growing pressure of livestock in the country an enhancement or development is needed for fodder production [6].…”

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Effect of Phosphorus and Zinc on Fodder Yield and Quality of Leguminous Fodder: Berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum L.)

Samanta,

Kumar,

Rajeev

et al. 2023

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The contribution of the livestock sector to the Indian Economy is 4.11% of its total GDP and it is nearly 25.6% for total agricultural GDP. Small and marginal farmers are mainly attached to the mixed farming of field crops and dairy animals. Farmers get regular income from their dairy unit and also use dairy animals as economic security. Though India comes under the highest livestock populated countries, the production of milk is lower than expected because of improper feeding quality. Through the last two decades, the demand and price of milk both increase gradually, and farmers are not getting that much profit because of their dependency on ready cattle food. The gross profit after the selling of milk is nearly equal to the feeding expenditure. For the use of paddy straw as dry fodder, the quality and quantity of milk production are decreased. So, green fodder is the best option for livestock as it contains adequate nutrients as well as crude fibre. Among the fodder and forage crops, berseem is the second maximum cultivated fodder crop which possesses a 2 million ha area of fodder crops in India. There are several advantages of berseem as a fodder crop such as a short-duration crop, multi-cut nature, the capability of higher biomass production, the presence of a good amount of crude protein, cellulose, total digestible nutrients and succulent nature. Though Phosphorus and zinc play an antagonistic effect on each other, both are required for the growth and development of berseem crops. From cellular respiration to enzymatic reactions, phosphorus is essential for completing several metabolic activities. Zinc is related to yield and fodder quality by completing plant metabolisms like carbohydrates and auxin production. Adequate management practice is required to maintain the concentration of both nutrients at an optimum level. In Indian soil, zinc is deficient and phosphorus is mostly present in organic form. So, the use of biofertilizers will be effective to convert those complex nutrients form into simple and available for the plant.

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Effect of Phosphorus and Zinc on Fodder Yield and Quality of Leguminous Fodder: Berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum L.)

Samanta,

Kumar,

Rajeev

et al. 2023

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“…2016) and better quality of fodder (20% crude protein), high digestability (up to 65%) and high palatability (Singh et al 2019) and (FAO, 2011). Berseem is characterize by succulent, high palatability, green manures, soil fertility (Graves et al 1996, EL Nahrawy, 2005, Bakheit, 2013and Kumar, et al 2021, and nitrogen-fixing (Stewart et al 2008 andSingh et al 2019). Egyptian clover has been established as one of the best winter fodder crop in Egypt, it is the king fodder in Egypt (Badawy et al 2018).…”

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Effect of Pollination by Honey Bees on Seed Yield and Its Attributes in Egyptian Clover (Trifolium aalexandrinum L.)

Badawy

EL-Gaafarey²,

Mansour³

et al. 2022

Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology

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The effect of honey bees as a pollinator on quality and quantity of Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum L.) seeds was studied to get acquainted of the colony numbers (No. of frames) on seed production during 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 winter seasons. The honey bees, Apis mellifera, had significant effect in all seed treatments and four frames gave the highest seed setting. Over the two seasons, the maximum seed setting was recorded with four honey bee frames (81.6%) followed by three frames (75.5%), open pollination gave 72.1%, two frames gave 64.7%, one frame gave 59.6%, and without honey bee pollination in greenhouse gave 11.5%. Maximum seed yield was obtained by treatment of four frames (1.03kg/plot) followed by thee frames (0.944 kg/plot), two frames (0.822 kg/plot) and one frame (0.7 kg/plot). While the open pollination gave 0.89 kg/plot and without honey bee pollination gave 0.155 kg/plot. Maximum 1000-seed weight was increased by number of honey bee frames since the weight by four frames was 3.23 g/plot, by three frames was 3.07g/plot, by two frames was 2.77g/plot, and by one frame was 2.68 g/plot. The 1000-seed in open pollination treatment weighted 2.95 g/plot and 2.60 g/plot in free-honey bee pollination. Maximum seed germination was recorded in four frames of honey bee (94.5%), followed by three frames (93.5%), open pollination (92.8%), two frames (92.2%), one frame (89%), whereas the minimum seed germination was recorded in treatments of free-honey bee pollination (83.5%).

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“…The ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute maintains >900 accessions of Trifolium spp. including white clover (Singh et al 2019). For effective utilization of conserved germplasm in breeding programme needs to be focused for identification of valuable alleles/ traits through characterization and evaluation (Cameron 1983, Singh et al 2014, Dikshit et al 2014.…”

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Evaluation of White Clover (Trifolium repens L.) Germplasm for Different Agro-Morphological Traits Diversity in Mid-Himalayan Region

Singh

Deb

Radotra

2019

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White clover (Trifolim repens L.) is one of the most nutritious and widely grown forage legumes in the world. It is also a common component of cool season perennial grass pastures in Indian Mid-Himalayas. Being an important component of temperate grassland, diminutive efforts have been made in genetic improvement of white clover through comprehensive evaluation of germplasm collection. In present study, total 258 germplasm accessions of white clover were characterized under field conditions for the genotypic variation in twenty five agro-morphological traits. Characterized germplasm showed sufficient variation among the populations for qualitative traits, biomass yield and seed yield as revealed by range and coefficient of variation. Association analysis showed that dry matter yield was positively correlated with seed yield components traits. Principal component analysis revealed that first seven principal components accounted more than 60% of total variation. Out of 258, ten high biomass producing populations were selected and further evaluated for biomass yield, crude protein and seed yield potential. Average biomass yield of three populations viz., RRCPL-13 (15.74 q/ha/year), RRCPL-19 (17.25 q/ha/year), RRCPL-27 (18.79 q/ha/year) were better than the check variety Palampur Composite-1 (14.99 q/ha/year). Results of this study will help in designing future strategy in white clover improvement program for the development of new varieties. Also, the seeds extracted from Legon 18 had higher viability than BAG 14/001 at all maturity stages.

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Genetic Improvement of Berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum) in India: Current Status and Prospects

Cited by 7 publications

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Effect of Phosphorus and Zinc on Fodder Yield and Quality of Leguminous Fodder: Berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum L.)

Effect of Phosphorus and Zinc on Fodder Yield and Quality of Leguminous Fodder: Berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum L.)

Effect of Pollination by Honey Bees on Seed Yield and Its Attributes in Egyptian Clover (Trifolium aalexandrinum L.)

Evaluation of White Clover (Trifolium repens L.) Germplasm for Different Agro-Morphological Traits Diversity in Mid-Himalayan Region

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