СЕЛЕКЦИЯ КЛЕВЕРА ЛУГОВОГО ДЛЯ УСЛОВИЙ ЮЖНОЙ ЛЕСОСТЕПИ И ПОЙМ ЦЕНТРАЛЬНОГО ЧЕРНОЗЕМЬЯ

Abstract

For forage production of the Central Black-Earth Region clover is important. This crop can be effectively used in field crop rotations, to improve natural forage lands and to create cultural hayfields and pastures. Clover meadow has high feed advantages, allowing to fill the protein deficiency, is able to produce good yields, better than alfalfa grows on slightly acidic soils. For the most complete realization of the potential of clover it is necessary to create high-yielding two-cut varieties of meadow clover, which have good winter hardiness and drought resistance, have time to ripen for seeds in the second mowing and adapted to the soil and climatic conditions of the region. The article presents the results of more than 10 years of selection work to create a new variety of meadow clover Voronezhskiy. The variety was created by the method of polycross progeny of the best varieties of populations with a heterogeneous genetic nature, with high and stable heterosis, which were isolated from promising collection samples, followed by biotypic selection. The characteristics of the variety are given and the test results are given at in State varietal plots in a number of regions of the Central Black Earth Region. The new variety is better adapted to the changing climatic conditions of the region. In 2015, the Voronezhskiy clover variety was included in the State Register for the Central Black Earth (5) Region. Testing continues in the Volga-Vyatka and Middle Volga regions.