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Breeding in a World of Scarcity

Proceedings of the 2015 Meeting of the Section “Forage Crops and Amenity Grasses” of Eucarpia

Editors:

  1. Isabel Roldán-Ruiz

    1. (ILVO), Inst. for Agricult. and Fisheries Res., Melle, Belgium

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  2. Joost Baert

    1. (ILVO), Inst. for Agricult. and Fisheries Res., Melle, Belgium

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  3. Dirk Reheul

    1. Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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  • This book provides an update of the recent research in
  • fodder crops and grass breeding
  • This book contains the reports of lively debates and
  • workshops on the future of breeding, the implementation of evaluation methods
  • that estimate feeding value, recent advances in phenotyping and genomic
  • selection, highlighting future perspectives in breeding and breeding research
  • of grasses and fodder crops
  • This book contains the proceedings of a meeting attended by 124 scientists or breeders from 25 countries in Europe and overseas, very representative for the grass and fodder crops breeding community

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Table of contents (51 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Scarcity of Natural Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Breeding Forages to Cope with Environmental Challenges in the Light of Climate Change and Resource Limitations

      • Á. Helgadóttir, L. Østrem, R. P. Collins, M. Humphreys, A. Marshall, B. Julier et al.
      Pages 3-13

    4. Phenotyping Genetic Diversity of Perennial Ryegrass Ecotypes (Lolium perenne L.)

      • A. Bothe, S. Nehrlich, E. Willner, K. J. Dehmer
      Pages 21-27

    5. An Assessment of Phenotypic Diversity Within a Collection of Natural Lolium perenne Ecotypes and Cultivars from Across Europe

      • D. Gasior, J. Harper, M. Humphreys, A. Lovatt, A. Armstead, R. Sanderson
      Pages 29-33

    7. Variation for Plant Architecture Traits Within a Perennial Ryegrass Association Mapping Population

      • V. Kemešytė, G. Statkevičiūtė, A. Aleliūnas, G. Brazauskas
      Pages 41-45

    8. Extent of Crown Rust Infection in a Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) Association Mapping Population

      • S. K. Arojju, D. Milbourne, P. Conaghan, T. R. Hodkinson, S. Barth
      Pages 47-52

    9. The EUCARPIA Multi-site Rust Evaluation − 2013 Results

      • F. X. Schubiger, J. Baert, T. Ball, Z. Both, E. Czembor, U. Feuerstein et al.
      Pages 53-62

    10. Variation in Drought Tolerance of Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)

      • P. Westermeier, A. Wosnitza, E. Willner, U. Feuerstein, W. Luesink, S. Schulze et al.
      Pages 63-68

    11. Drought Stress-Induced Changes in Gas Exchange, Chl a Fluorescence Parameters and Yield in Lolium, Festuca and Festulolium

      • A. Fariaszewska, J. Aper, M. Staniak, J. Baert, J. Van Huylenbroeck, J. De Riek
      Pages 69-73

    12. Toward a Standard Test for Summer Dormancy in Tall Fescue

      • E. C. Brummer, M. Trammell
      Pages 75-79

    14. Evaluation of Orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) Autochthonous Serbian Germplasm in Pre-breeding

      • D. Sokolović, S. Babić, J. Radović, M. Petrović, G. Jevtić, Z. Lugić et al.
      Pages 89-97

  3. Scarcity of Breeders

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Towards Model-Assisted Evaluation of Perennial Ryegrass Varieties

      • T. De Swaef, A. Ghesquiere, P. Lootens, I. Roldán-Ruiz
      Pages 101-104

    3. Real-Time Growth Analysis of Perennial Ryegrass Under Water Limiting Conditions

      • K. Jonavičienė, S. Yates, S. Nagelmüller, F. Liebisch, N. Kirchgessner, A. Walter et al.
      Pages 105-109

    4. UAV-Based Remote Sensing for Evaluation of Drought Tolerance in Forage Grasses

      • P. Lootens, W. H. Maes, T. De Swaef, J. Aper, K. C. Mertens, K. Steppe et al.
      Pages 111-116

    5. Association Analysis of Candidate Genes with Tillering in Perennial Ryegrass

      • G. Statkevičiūtė, A. Aleliūnas, V. Kemešytė, G. Brazauskas
      Pages 117-120
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About this book

This book includes papers presented at the 2015 meeting of the Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses Section of Eucarpia. The theme of the meeting “Breeding in a world of scarcity” was elaborated in four sessions: (1) scarcity of natural resources, (2) scarcity of breeders, (3) scarcity of land and (4) scarcity of focus. Parts I to IV of this book correspond to these four sessions. Session 1 refers to the consequences of climate change, reduced access to natural resources and declining freedom in using them. Plant breeding may help by developing varieties with a more efficient use of water and nutrients and a better tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Session 2 refers to the shrinking number of field breeders. There is a need for a mutual empathy between field- and lab-oriented breeding activities, integrating new methods of phenotyping and genotyping. Session 3 underscores the optimal use of agricultural land. Forage needs to be intensively produced in a sustainable way, meeting theenergy, protein and health requirements of livestock. Well-adapted varieties, species and mixtures of grasses and legumes are needed. Session 4 refers to the fading of focus in primary production triggered by a range of societal demands. There are few farmers left and they are asked to meet many consumer demands. Both large-scale, multi-purpose species and varieties and specialized niche crops are required. Part V summarizes the conclusions of two open debates, two working group meetings and two workshops held during the conference. The debates were devoted to the future of grass and fodder crop breeding, and to feed quality breeding and testing. The conference hosted meetings of the working groups “Multisite rust evaluation” and “Festulolium”. Workshops focused on “genomic selection and association mapping” and on “phenotyping” with applications in practical breeding research. Part V contains also short sketches of breeding ideas presented as short communications.  
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Editors and Affiliations

  • (ILVO), Inst. for Agricult. and Fisheries Res., Melle, Belgium

    Isabel Roldán-Ruiz, Joost Baert

  • Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

    Dirk Reheul

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Breeding in a World of Scarcity

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 2015 Meeting of the Section “Forage Crops and Amenity Grasses” of Eucarpia

  • Editors: Isabel Roldán-Ruiz, Joost Baert, Dirk Reheul

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28932-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28930-4Published: 14 June 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80458-3Published: 30 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28932-8Published: 13 June 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 337

  • Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology

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