Breeding of perennial grasses and forage legumes
The goal: Realization of new varieties with high production potential, quality and adaptation to different ecological, technological and capitalization conditions, in environmental conditions in a continuous change;
The main breeding objectives of perennial grass and forage legumes species are:
- * high production and quality of feed and seed, staggered balanced over the entire vegetation period;
- * high palatability and digestibility, high content in soluble carbohydrates and proteins, low content in cell wall constituents;
- * suitability to different ways to use: meadow, pasture, silage, turf, mixed, ecological restoration;
- * adaptability, high ecological plasticity;
- * resistance to stress factors: diseases, pests,drought, wintering;
- * different degrees of precocity, to establish the pasture conveyors;
- * adequate competitiveness for making simple or complex grassland mixtures;
- * high biological fixation of atmospheric N.