Genetic and environmental variation in alfalfa forage yield from variety testing experiments conducted in North America between 1986 to 1999

10.4231/Y31N-5R10

Daniel Wiersma, Jeffrey Volenec Stanislav Pejša, Sylvie Brouder, Wayne G. Hartman

06/15/2020

The yield dataset contains forage yield data from over 700 alfalfa variety tests conducted by researchers in the US and Canada from 1986 through 1999. Some trials also measured forage quality and stand; these data are also available in PURR. The data were...

Agriculture Agronomy Alfalfa alfalfa_db Forage yield Genetic improvement Genotype x environment Germplasm Lucerne Medicago variety Variety testing yield improvement