Characterization and Evaluation of White Clover Collections

Seventy-seven lines of white clover, a temperate forage species, comprising sixty local collections made from different altitudes in Himachal Pradesh and seventeen exotic accessions procured from IGER, UK, were evaluated for twenty morphological parameters. Most of the characters exhibited variability both within and between populations. Based on overall morphology, the populations were grouped into eight groups. The populations with desirable traits were identified for further use in white clover improvement.