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Alfalfa, Medicago sativa L., is a highly productive forage species, grown throughout the temperate regions of the world for its premium quality hay and pasturage. Alfalfa originated near the Caspian Sea in northern Iran and northeastern Turkey; its cultivation spread throughout the Mediterranean region and into Germany, France, and China by the time of the Roman Empire (Bolton 1962). Today, alfalfa is raised on all continents and is currently cultivated on more than 32 million hectares worldwide (Michaud et al. 1988). The genus Medicago is highly diverse, including not only perennial, cultivated alfalfa but also several annual forage species and many species with little apparent agronomic value but having potentially vital germplasm for further improvement of the cultivated species.
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Brummer, E.C. et al. (1994). Molecular maps of alfalfa. In: Phillips, R.L., Vasil, I.K. (eds) DNA-based markers in plants. Advances in Cellular and Molecular Biology of Plants, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1104-1_8
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