Claim · model-written summary
Selecting parents with higher NDSF predicted by NIRS may improve alfalfa forage quality.
- Taxon
- Alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Outcome
- improve forage quality of alfalfae0
- Qualifier
- maye0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Alfalfa”
e0“Selecting parents with higher NDSF concentrations predicted by NIRS evaluations of HS progenies may improve forage quality of alfalfa.”
Title
C.E.L. Fonseca; J.L. Hansen; E.M. Thomas; et al. Crop Science 1999. doi:10.2135/cropsci1999.3951265x
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation NDSF mean was 213.1 ± 7.21 g kg −1 after 90% ethanol extraction.
- Observation NDSF mean was 179.5 ± 5.89 g kg −1 after 80% ethanol extraction.
- Method / resource Assay standard deviations were low at both ethanol concentrations.
- Method / resource The 80% ethanol assay gave a better calibration equation.
- Method / resource NIRS calibration standard errors ranged from 4.71 to 7.54 g kg −1.
- Method / resource NIRS multiple determination coefficients ranged from 0.72 to 0.97.
- Observation Most NDSF heritability estimates exceeded zero significantly and averaged 0.41.
- Observation Expected selection gain averaged 10.3 g kg −1.