Proceedings 1995

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WELCOME SPEECHES AND INTRODUCTORY PAPER

Welcome speech Prof. Dr. Dr. Gunnar Berg
President of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Welcome speech Prof. Dr. Gerhard von Lengerken
Dean of the Agricultural Faculty

Welcome speech Dr. Helmut Rehhahn
Minister of Food, Agriculture and Forestry of Sachsen-Anhalt

Welcome speech Günter Flessner
President of the German Agricultural Society (DLG)

Welcome speech Jürgen Krafft
President of the German Seed Growers Association (BDS)

Introductory Paper Dr. Gisbert Kley
President of ASSINSEL (Nyon, CH) and of AMUFOC (Brussels, B)
- Seed production in grass and clover species in Europe -

SUBJECT 1 
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SEED YIELD AND SEED QUALITY

Warringa, J.W.: Physiological limitations on seed filling in Lolium perenne L.

Simon, U.: Climatic effects on components of seed yield in Italian ryegrass

Nelson, L.R.; Ward, S.L.; Crowder, J.: Effect of vernalization on heading date, tillering and plant biomass of Lolium multiflorum

Aamlid, T.S.: Causes for variable yields in seed production of arctic cultivars of Poa pratensis L. at lower latitudes

Schmidt, A.; Schultze-Kraft, R.; Maass, B.L.; Herrmann, R.: Aspects of the amphicarpy of the tropical pasture legume Centrosema rotundifolium Mart. ex Bentham

Iannucci, A.; Range, G.; Di Fonzo, N.; Martiniello, P.: Drought stress effects on seed yield and quality of four annual clovers

Cowan, A.A.; Marshall, A.H.: The use of moisture stress to optimise seed yield and quality in Trifolium repens

Marshall, A.H.; Michaelson-Yeates, T.P.T.; Williams, I.H.: The use of isoenzymes to quantify the efficiency of insect pollinators in mediating pollen flow in white clover (Trifolium repens L.) seed crops and consequences for seed yield

Rowarth, J.S.; Archie, W.J.: A diagnostic method for prediction of seed yield in perennial ryegrass

Griffith, S.M.: Nitrogen nutrition, plant growth, climatic conditions and seed yield of grass grown for seed

Havstad, L.T.: The effect of plant age on the receptiveness for primary induction in Festuca pratensis Huds.

Maguire, J.D.; Johnston, W.J.; Stannard, M.: Matriconditioning grass seed for improved stand establishment

Radenovic, B.: Multiyear testing of effects agroecological conditions on the variability of qualitative properties of lucerne seed variety OS-66

Ramírez-Avilés, L.; Hacker, J.B.: Influence of time of tiller emergence and N on seed yield components of Digitaria eriantha

Loch,D.S.; Schultze-Kraft, R.: Problems of seed production and germ plasm preservation in tropical forage plants

SUBJECT 2
PLANT BREEDING FOR SEED YIELD AND SEED QUALITY

Elgersma, A.: Breeding for seed yield ? but how?

Falcinelli, M.; Russi, L.; Lorenzetti, F.: Breeding strategies for yield and quality of forage grass seeds in a Mediterranean environment

Simon, U.: Breeding for resistance to seed-shattering in forage grasses

Cagas, B.: The resistance of Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) to ergot (Claviceps purpurea/Ft./Tull.)

Fairey, D.T.: Fall dormancy and sources of germplasm in alfalfa

Staszewski, Z.: Recent methodology for improvement of lucerne seed yield capacity

Góral, H.; Spiss, L.: Long inflorescence in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) and its significance for seed yield

Fischer-Weyer, H.; Freudenstein, H.: Variety testing of fodder plants (grasses and clover) in Germany

Hahn, H.; Schöberlein, W.: How to achieve variety identification of seed samples of Festuca pratensis Huds.

Binek, A.: Selection for hulled and unhulled seeds in Timothy (Phleum pratense L.) and its effect on seed value

Bodzon, Z.; Staszewski, Z.; Tharel, B.: Morphology and GCA of long raceme families poly-cross progeny of lucerne

Dzyubenko, N.I.; Vishnyakova, M.A.: Intraspecific variability of seed productivity character in alfalfa

Pozdnyakov, V.A.: Ecology-genetical aspects of poliploidy for the red clover selection

Staszewski, L.; Staszewski, Z.: Seed yield potential of ladino white clover improvement by the head selection

Debely, G.A.; Derbensky, V.I.: The sowing rates effect of determinated and common (indeterminated) forms of blue lupin (Lupinus angustifolius L.) on seed productivity

Debely, G.; Derbensky, V.; Voronova, Z.: Common (indeterminated) and determinated blue lupine (Lupinus angustifolius L.) forms: particulars of their seed productivity

Likhachev, B.S.: Peculiarities of the early stages of yellow lupin seed production

Fuchs, E.; Hennig, U.: Investigation on seed transmission of SCMV and MDMV in maize

Batta, R.K.; Sidhu, B.S.; Mehndiratta, P.D.; Hazra, C.R.: Breeding for higher seed production in fodder crops in India

Sinizyna, S.: The herbage seed growing in Russia

Leffel, J.A.; Olsen, H.C.; Koepsell. P.A.; Young III, W.C.: Control of white mold and black stem in crimson clover

SUBJECT 3
TECHNOLOGY OF SEED PRODUCTION

Boelt, B.: The effect of cover crops on undersown grasses for seed production

Fairey, N.A.: Crop density effects on seed production of red fescue

Niemeläinen, O., Järvi, A.: Effect of nitrogen fertilizer application rate and timing on timothy seed crops in Northern Europe

Schöberlein, W.; Delling, M.; Müller, S.: Fertilizer experiments with 15N labeled nitrogen in perennial seed grasses for studying N-uptake in varying soil depths

Evers, G.W.; Nelson, L.R.: Effect of grazing termination date on annual ryegrass seed production in the southeastern USA

Rijckaert, G.: Effect of fungicides on seed yield and disease control in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)

Lepkovitch, I.; Gormin, A.; Degunova, N.: Perfection of the technology of growing Phalaroides arundinacea for seeds of North-West of Russia

Roggero, P.P., Re, G.A., Porqueddu C.: Seed production of European white clover varieties in the Mediterranean sheep grazing system

Martiniello, P.; D'Agnano, G.: Irrigation and forage harvest management on seed production in perennial forage crops in Mediterranean environments seed production

Vishnyakova, M.A.; Kurlovich, B.S.: Mechanisms of pollination and seed productivity in Lupinus polyphyllus L.

Lusembo, P.; Sabiiti, E.N.: Influence of interrow spacing and harvesting method on Desmodium intortum seed yield in Uganda

Martiniello, P.: Agronomical and economical aspects involved in forage crops seed production in Mediterranean environments

Borm, G.E.L.: Possibilities of mechanical weed control at different row distances in perennial ryegrass grown for seed

Matevosjan, G.L.; Drizhachenko, A.I.: The influence of phytostimulators and hydrogels on growth and development of perennial grasses

Aamlid, T.S.; Skuterud, R.: Enhancement of flowering and seed production of Bromus inermis Leyss. by autumn application of CCC

Sicard, G.: Nitrogen fertilisation, nitrogen uptake and seed yield in perennial ryegrass

Wander, J.G.N.; Steenhuizen, J.W.; Ehlert, P.A.I.: Response of perennial ryegrass, red fescue and smoothstalked meadowgrass grown for seed to phosphorus fertilization and soil P level

Rolston, M.P.: Ryegrass 2000

Najda, H.G.; McKenzie, R.C.: Irrigated grass seed production in Southern Alberta ? Exploratory endeavors

Coats, D.D.; Crowe, F.J.; Butler, M.: Effects of post-harvest residue management on Kentucky bluegrass seed yield and seed quality in Central Oregon

Johnston, W.J.; Golob, C.T.; Sitton, J.W.: Control of ergot in Kentucky bluegrass seed fields using SDI fungicides and a surfactant

Lelievre F.; Porqueddu, C.; Genier, G.; Sulas, L.: Seed production and harvest of annual burr medic (Medicago polymorpha L.): First results in south of France and Italy (Sardinia)

Sánchez, M.; Ferguson, J.E.; Schultze-Kraft, R.: Studies on the seed dormancy of the tropical forage grass Brachiaria dictyoneura

Cardozo, C.I.; Ferguson, J.E.; Schultze-Kraft, R.: Seed production of perennial forage peanut in mixed cropping with maize and beans

Young III, W.C.; Youngberg, H.W.: Establishing fall-seeded red clover for seed production with cereal cover crops

Medeiros, R.B.; Jaques, A.V.A.; Nabinger, C.: Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) seed production under different row spacing and plant population in the seeding year.

El-Nahrawy, M.; Rammah, A.: Current status and prospects of alfalfa seed production and use of seed in Egypt

Radenovic, B.: Average annual requirements, production, import and export of legumes and grass seeds in Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) up to the year 2000

Tomic, Z.; Mladenovic, R.: Perennial grass seed production in some mountain regions of Serbia

Provorov, N.A.; Tanriverdiev, T.A.; Soskov, Yu.D.; Fydorov, S.N.; Simarov, B.V.: Improvement of the seed yield in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L., M. varia Mart ) and fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.) by means of the nodule bacteria (Rhizobium meliloti) inoculation

Altuve, S.M.; Ramirez, M.A.; Ramirez, R.R.; Burtnik, O.; Playa Palates, 0.: Seed production of Setaria sphacelata in Corrientes, Argentina

Altuve, S.M.; Royo Pallarés, O.; Ramirez, M.A.; Ramirez, R.R.: An alternative for the harvest of tropical seed grasses

Batta, R.K.: Seed production of forage amaranth genotypes

Schöberlein, W.; Lampeter, W.; Matthies, H.; Forster, K.; Eggestem, St.: Herbage seed research in past and present at the agricultural faculty of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

SUBJECT 4
SEED PROCESSING AND SEED QUALITY

Schwarz, H.; Ribouni, K.: Effective cleaning equipment and technology

Schwarz, H.; Ribouni, K.: Meaning of the separating elementsair suction and lower screen for the compacting construction of a

Förster, K.: Electrophoretical characterization of grass seed

Polozova, N.L.; Kostitsyn, V.V.: Seed quality and yield of graminea grasses

El-Nahrawy, M.; Hanna, I.A.; El-Barougy, E.; Yousri, H.; Niemelainen, O.: Quality parameters of Egyptian clover seed lots used on newly reclaimed area in Egypt

Veselova T.V., Veselovsky V.A., Schöberlein, W.: Determination of viability and longevity of seeds by luminescent method

Eric. P.; Cupina, B.: Factors affecting percentage of processed alfalfa seed

Loch, D.S.; Harvey, G.L.: Processing chaffy grass seeds for improved handling

Ribouni, K.: Solar drying of grain and seed

Savin, V.N.; Archipov, M.V.; Gusakova, L.P.: The study of Festuca and Lolium seeds by methods of rentgenography and accellerated ageing

Likhachev, B.S.; Kornev, A.P.; Yagovenko, L.P.: Improving of lupin seed quality testing

SUBJECT 5
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENDOPHYTES AND SEED YIELD AND QUALITY

Rolston, M.P.; Rowarth, J.S.: Aspects of endophyte in ryegrass (Lolium perenne) seed production

Schöberlein, W.; Eggestein, St.; Pfannmöller, M.: Effects of endophyte-infected varieties of Festuca pratensis on seed production

Nelson, L.R.; Evers, G.W.; Crowder, J.; Ward, S.L.: Effect of endophyte on seed weight, germination, tillering, biomass, heading date, and forage yield on annual ryegrass

Oldenburg, E.: Alkaloid production in endophyte infected Lolium perenne

Mika, V.; Burned, J.: Decline of endophyte viability during seed storage

WORKSHOP REPORTS AND FAREWELL ADDRESSES

  1. CHEMICAL WEED CONTROL FOR HERBAGE SEED CROPS
             Philip Rolston (Chairman)
             Eberhardt Langels (2nd Chairman)
  2. MODERN METHODS FOR HERBAGE SEED TESTING
    Part I : Electrophoretical methods in seed testing
               Fred Eickmeyer (Chairman)
    Part II: Herbage seed vigour
                John Hampton (Chairman)
  3. PROBLEMS OF SEED PRODUCTION AND GERM PLASM PRESERVATION OF TROPICAL FORAGE PLANTS
               Rainer Schultze-Kraft (Chairmann)

Remarks from the Chair
         Werner Schöberlein

         Chairman of the Organising Committee

An Acknowledgment from IHSPRG
         Daphne T. Fairey

         President of the International Herbage Seed
         Production Research Group

Author Index