Understanding the grassland ecosystem is crucial for improving grassland ecosystem
functions and services such as climate regulation, water and soil conservation, carbon …

Background The availability of chromosome-scale genome assemblies is fundamentally
important to advance genetics and breeding in crops, as well as for evolutionary and …

Background Self-incompatibility (SI) systems prevent self-fertilization in several species of
Poaceae, many of which are economically important forage, bioenergy and turf grasses. Self …

Improvement of persistency is an important breeding goal in red clover (Trifolium pratense
L.). In areas with cold winters, lack of persistency is often due to poor winter survival, of …

Background Drought resistance is a complex characteristic closely related to the severity
and duration of stress. Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) has no distinct drought …

Germplasm from perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) natural populations is useful for
breeding because of its adaptation to a wide range of climates. Climate‐adaptive genes can …

Key message High variability for and candidate loci associated with resistance to southern
anthracnose and clover rot in a worldwide collection of red clover provide a first basis for …

Red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) is an outcrossing forage legume that has adapted to a
wide range of climatic and growing conditions across Europe. Red clover is valued for its …

Here we present SMAP, a software package that implements a suite of computational tools
to extract multi-allelic haplotypes using read-backed haplotyping. SMAP tools first perform …

Key message Breeding target traits can be broadened to include nutritive value and plant
breeder's rights traits in perennial ryegrass by using in-field regression-based spectroscopy …