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The vetches are important annual forage crops in Serbia. Forage and seed production, as well as morphological traits of 33 accessions of common vetch (V. sativa) and eight accessions of hairy vetch (V. villosa), were estimated in the agro-ecological conditions of Serbia. The accessions were obtained from South Australia where they had been bred or cultivated in the past 20 years. Field nurseries were established at the Institute of forage crops in Krusevac in the autumn of 2008 and 2009, with 40 spaced plants per accession. In the spring of 2009 and 2010, morphological traits, and forage and seed yield components were measured. The results for both years for all traits were analyzed by ANOVA. A cluster analysis was performed on the basis of all investigated traits, using the complete linkage method with Euclidean distances. The results indicated a high level of variability of the accessions and a high potential for genetic improvement of all investigated traits.
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This research was financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia, project TR31057.
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Lugić, Z., Radović, J., Sokolović, G., Jevtić, G., Vasić, T., Andjelković, S. (2013). Variability Among Accessions of Forage Vetch for Basic Agronomic and Morphological Traits under Agro-Ecological Conditions of Serbia. In: Barth, S., Milbourne, D. (eds) Breeding strategies for sustainable forage and turf grass improvement. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4555-1_35
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