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<blockquote data-quote="Great In Grass" data-source="post: 6159576" data-attributes="member: 79"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Festulolium - The science behind</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Hybrid grasses from DLF</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><img src="https://www.dlf.co.uk/Files/Images/dlf.com/Forage%20solutions/IMG_5070.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></strong></span></p><p></p><p>Festulolium is the name for a hybrid forage grass developed by crossing Meadow Fescue (<em>Festuca pratense</em>) or Tall Fescue (<em>Festuca arundinacea</em>) with perennial ryegrass</p><p>(<em>Lolium perenne</em>) or Italian ryegrass (<em>Lolium multiflorum</em>).</p><p></p><p>This enables combining the best properties of the two types of grass and it is important to know that each of these grasses has its own characteristics and should not always be compared to each other.</p><p></p><p>The fescues contribute qualities such as high dry matter yield, resistance to cold, drought tolerance and persistence, while ryegrass is contributes with rapid establishment,</p><p>good spring growth, good digestibility, sugar content and palatability. The individual festulolium varieties contain various combinations of these qualities, but all are substantially better yielding than their parent lines.</p><p></p><p>While festuloliums have been around for many years, the true potential had never been pursued in earnest but its about to change.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Comprehensive and targeted breeding programme at DLF</strong></span></p><p>DLF has developed a substantial breeding program in hybrid festulolium that has produced a unique range of hybrid festulolium varieties. After initial hybridization and subsequent selection on the hybrid progeny or back crossing the hybrid progeny to its parental lines, a wide range of varieties with varying characteristics and phenotypes has been created.</p><p></p><p>They are classified according to their degree of phenotypical similarity to the original parents, not to their genotype heritage. One can regard them as high yielding fescues with improved forage quality or as high yielding, more persistent ryegrasses.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.dlf.co.uk/Files/Images/dlf.com/Forage solutions/72890036.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Great In Grass, post: 6159576, member: 79"] [SIZE=6][B]Festulolium - The science behind[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][B]Hybrid grasses from DLF[/B] [B][/B] [B][IMG]https://www.dlf.co.uk/Files/Images/dlf.com/Forage%20solutions/IMG_5070.jpg[/IMG][/B][/SIZE] Festulolium is the name for a hybrid forage grass developed by crossing Meadow Fescue ([I]Festuca pratense[/I]) or Tall Fescue ([I]Festuca arundinacea[/I]) with perennial ryegrass ([I]Lolium perenne[/I]) or Italian ryegrass ([I]Lolium multiflorum[/I]). This enables combining the best properties of the two types of grass and it is important to know that each of these grasses has its own characteristics and should not always be compared to each other. The fescues contribute qualities such as high dry matter yield, resistance to cold, drought tolerance and persistence, while ryegrass is contributes with rapid establishment, good spring growth, good digestibility, sugar content and palatability. The individual festulolium varieties contain various combinations of these qualities, but all are substantially better yielding than their parent lines. While festuloliums have been around for many years, the true potential had never been pursued in earnest but its about to change. [SIZE=5][B]Comprehensive and targeted breeding programme at DLF[/B][/SIZE] DLF has developed a substantial breeding program in hybrid festulolium that has produced a unique range of hybrid festulolium varieties. After initial hybridization and subsequent selection on the hybrid progeny or back crossing the hybrid progeny to its parental lines, a wide range of varieties with varying characteristics and phenotypes has been created. They are classified according to their degree of phenotypical similarity to the original parents, not to their genotype heritage. One can regard them as high yielding fescues with improved forage quality or as high yielding, more persistent ryegrasses. [IMG]https://www.dlf.co.uk/Files/Images/dlf.com/Forage solutions/72890036.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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