Five decades of alfalfa cultivar improvement: impact on forage yield, persistence, and nutritive value

By J. Lamb, C. Sheaffer, L. Rhodes, R. M. Sulc, D. Undersander, E. C. Brummer. 2006

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Applied Genetics and Genomics in Alfalfa Breeding (2012, background): “The reasons for the location differences may be explained by an experiment that evaluated cultivars released from the mid-1950s through the 1990s [22].”
Genetic mapping of biomass production in tetraploid alfalfa (2007, background): “The improved alfalfa yield of newer cultivars relative to older ones appears to be attributable to increased pest resistance rather than to improved yield potential per se (Lamb et al., 2006).”
Achievements and Challenges in Improving Temperate Perennial Forage Legumes (2015, background): “The multi-location assessment by Lamb et al. (2006) provides further insight, showing rates near to 0.50% in two sites with high pressure of pests, and nearly no gains in two other sites featuring modest biotic stresses.”