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title = "Dissecting Festulolium chromosome 3 to locate rooting and drought resistance traits",
abstract = "Breeding for drought resistance/tolerance traits that favour continued growth and yield in forage grasses rather than just survival would be of great economic value. Festuca chromosome 3 has proved a rich source of alleles for introgression to enhance the expression of beneficial traits in a Lolium background. Three drought resistant introgression lines and a chromosome 3 recombination series were grown in 1 m deep pipes of compost and drought imposed by withholding water. Root traits were shown to be important in drought resistance and the presence of genes on chromosome 3 with some control over relevant traits has been confirmed. Furthermore it is concluded that Lolium and Festuca should be considered as a single genetic complex of grasses comprising a useful source of variation for breeding.",
author = "Turner, \{Lesley B.\} and Macleod, \{Christopher J. A.\} and C. Watts and Whalley, \{W. R.\} and A. Binley and T. Papadopoulos and S. O'Donovan and Haygarth, \{Philip M.\} and Julie King and Humphreys, \{Michael W.\}",
note = "Turner, L. B., Macleod, C. J. A., Watts, C., Whalley, W. R., Binley, A., Papadopoulos, T., O'Donovan, S., Haygarth, P. M., King, J., Humphreys, M. W. (2010). Dissecting Festulolium chromosome 3 to locate rooting and drought resistance traits In: Sustainable Use of Genetic Diversity in Forage and Turf Breeding, Huyghe, C. (Ed.) Chapter 70, (Part 5), 471-477. This book is a collection of papers presented at the 2009 meeting of the Fodder Crops and Amenity grasses section of Eucarpia. It provides a unique source of information on the most recent results on genetic diversity and breeding in forage crops and turf species from Europe and overseas. It is organised in five sections. The first section is devoted to genetic resources which are the source of diversity for breeding but also a source of information for a better preservation of diversity through biogeography approaches. The second section focuses on changes which may occur in grassland and turf swards. These swards are plant communities which are likely to experience species and genetic changes. Population genetics provides keys to understand these changes in order to take them into account during breeding and sward management. The third section documents the genetic gains achieved during breeding while the fourth one gives a detailed presentation of the results and potential of molecular biology to better use the genetic diversity. Eventually, the fifth section investigates the potential of new structures of varieties either exploiting the heterosis or the interspecific hybridization. RONO: 1340 6748 ",
year = "2010",
month = aug,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1007/978-90-481-8706-5\_70",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-90-481-8705-8",
pages = "471--477",
editor = "C. Huyghe",
booktitle = "Sustainable use of Genetic Diversity in Forage and Turf Breeding",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
address = "Switzerland",
edition = "1st Edition",
}