Editorial: Forage crop improvement for improved livestock production and nutrition

Front Plant Sci. 2022 Dec 5:13:1082873. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1082873. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Jorge F Pereira¹, Jiyu Zhang², Russell Jessup³, Chris S Jones⁴

Affiliations

¹ Embrapa Gado de Leite, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
² State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
³ Department of Soil and Crop Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
⁴ Feed and Forage Development, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.

No abstract available

Keywords: animal nutrition; forage quality; genome-wide association studies (GWAS); marker assisted selection; omics; plant breeding.

Publication types

Editorial