Biotechnology and the improvement of forage legumes

Introduction to problems in the production of forage legumes breeding methods for forage legumes tannins and forage quality temperature and drought stress salinity and aluminium stress resistance to insect pests resistance to fungal pathogens engineering for resistance to virus diseases applying plant-microbe signalling concepts to alfalfa - roles of secondary metabolites competition among rhizobia for nodulation of legumes nitrogen fixing capacity RAPD and RFLP mapping synthetic seeds germplasm conservation production of industrial enzymes in transgenic alfalfa somatic hybridization and embryo rescue for the introduction of wild germplasm.