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JOINT PUBLICATION NO. 3, “The Breeding of Herbage Plants in Scandinavia and Finland” of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux of Aberystwyth and Cambridge contains considerable information on the breeding of clovers and pasture grasses in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The contributors are S. Nilsson-Leissner, F. Nilsson, E. Åkerberg, R. Torssell, H. N. Frandsen, H. Wexelsen, and O. Pokjakalliv. A significant feature of the work in these countries is that the breeding work on a given crop has led to the country becoming independent of foreign seed for that crop. It was found, for example, that selection of late strains of red clover from local strains improved the yield by 10 per cent, and such selections are now so popular in Denmark that it is unnecessary to import seed. Similar results are reported from Norway and Sweden, where resistance to Sclerotinia trifoliorum and Tylenchus, ‘persistance’ and winter hardiness are of particular importance.
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Breeding of Herbage Plants in Scandinavia and Finland. Nature 146, 22 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146022c0
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