Laboratory of Ann Hirsch

Publications on Sweetclover (Melilotus sp.)

• ARDOUREL, M., LORTET, G., MAILLET, F., ROCHE, P., TRUCHET, G., PROME, J.C., and ROSENBERG, C.  1995.   In Rhizobium meliloti, the operon associated with the nod box n5 comprises nodL, noeA and noeB, three host-range genes specifically required for the nodulation of particular Medicago species. Mol. Microbiol. 17:687-99 
• AKHALKATSI, M., PFAUTH, M., CALVIN, C.L.. Structural aspects of ovule and seed development and nonrandom abortion in Melilotus officinalis (Fabaceae). 1999. Protoplasma. 208: p. 211-223 
• BAEV, N., ENDRE, G., PETROVICS, G., BANFALVI, Z., and KONDOROSI, A. 1991. Six nodulation genes of nod box locus 4 in Rhizobium meliloti are involved in nodulation signal production: nodM codes for D-glucosamine synthetase. Mol. Gen. Genet. 228:113-124.
• BANFALVI, Z., and KONDOROSI, A. 1989. Production of root hair deformation factors by Rhizobium meliloti nodulation genes in Escherichia coli: HsnD (NodH) is involved in the plant host-specific modification of the NodABC factor. Plant Mol. Biol. 13:1-12.
• BEVILACQUA, L.R., G. ROTIMICHELOZZI, and P. MODENESI. 1989. The  watertight dormancy of Melilotus alba seeds - further  observations on the palisade cell wall. Can. J. Bot. 67:3453-3456. 
• BEVILACQUA, L., ROTI-MICHELOZZI. G., and IVALDI, M. 1990. [Structure of the endosperm in the mature seed of Melilotus alba]. [Article in Italian]. Boll. Soc. Ital. Biol. Sper. 66:1065-1071. 
• BEVINS, M., C.-M. YANG, and J. MARKWELL. 1992. Characterization of a  chlorophyll-deficient mutant of sweetclover (Melilotus alba). Plant Physiol. Biochem. 30:327-331.
• BEVINS, M.A., S. MADHAVANS, AND J. MARKWELL. 1993. Two sweetclover (Melilotus  alba Desr.) mutants temperature sensitive for chlorophyll  expression. Plant Physiol. 103:1123-1131. 
• BRINK, R.A. 1934. A non-bitter variety of Melilotus. Science  79: 301. 
• BROMFIELD, E.S.P., L.R. BARRAN, and R. WHEATCROFT. 1995. Relative  genetic structure of a population of Rhizobium meliloti isolated  directly from soil and from nodules of alfalfa (Medicago sativa) and sweetclover (Melilotus alba). Mol. Ecol. 4:183-188.

BROMFIELD, E.S., BUTLER,  G., BARRAN, L.R.  2001.  Temporal effects on the composition of a population of Sinorhizobium meliloti associated with Medicago sativa and Melilotus alba.  Can. J. Microbiol.  47:567-573.
• DATTA, C; and P.S. BASU. 1998. Content of indoleacetic acid and its  metabolism in root nodules of Melilotus alba. Folia Microbiol.  43:427-430.
• DATTA, C; and P.S. BASU. 1998. Production of indole acetic acid in  root nodules and culture by a Rhizobium species from root  nodules of the fodder legume Melilotus alba Desr. Acta Biotech.  18:53-62. 
• DOMBROWICZ, E., L. SWIATEK, R. GURYN, and R. ZADERNOWSKI. 1991.  Phenolic acids in herb Melilotus officinalis. Pharmazie. 46:  156-157. 
• FAENSENTHIEBES, A. 1992. The ecology of Melilotus alba L. 3.  The life cycle. [In German]. Flora, 186:377-391. 
• FRIEDRICH, H. 1960. Zur Physiologie und Biochemie der  Glykosidbildung. Kulturpflanze 8:158-167.
• FUERSTE, K. 1962 Einjaehriger Steinklee (Hubamklee) - Tetraploid.  Polyploidisierung, zuechterische Bearbeitung und vergleichende  Untersuchungen mit dem Ausgangsmaterial. Z.Pflanzenzuechtg. 47:156-171.
• GALLEGOS, G.L., ODOM, W.R., and GUIKEMA, J.A.  1995.   Effect of microgravity on stress ethylene and carbon dioxide production in sweet clover (Melilotus alba L.).   J. Gravit. Physiol.   2:P155-156. .
• GALLEGOS, G.L., PETERSON, B.V., BROWN, C.S., and GUIKEMA, J.A.  1995.    Effects of stress ethylene inhibitors on sweet clover (Melilotus alba L.) seedling growth in microgravity.  J. Gravit. Physiol.  2:P151-152
• GENGENBACH, B.G., F.A. HASKINS, and H.J. GORZ. 1969. Genetic studies  of induced mutants in Melilotus alba. I. Short-internode dwarf,  curled leaf, multifoliate leaf, and cotyledonary branching. Crop Sci.  9:607-610. 
• GENGENBACH, B.G., H.J. GORZ and F.A. HASKINS. 1970. Genetic studies  of induced mutants in Melilotus alba. II. Inheritance and  complementation of chlorophyll-deficient mutants. Crop Sci. 10:154-156. 
• GILCHRIST, D.G., F.A. HASKINS, and H.J. GORZ. 1970. Comparison of  protein constituents relating to beta-glucosidase activity in BB and bb  inbred lines of Melilotus alba. Genetics. 66:339-347. 
• GOPLEN, B.P., GREENSHIELDS, J.E.R. and BAENZIGER, H. 1957. The  inheritance of coumarin in sweet clover. Can J. Bot. 35: 583-593. 
• GOPLEN, B.P. 1962 A recessive gene with major pleiotropic effects in  sweetclover Melilotus alba L. Can. J. Genet. Cytol. 6:141-146.
• GOLPEN, B.P. 1967. A recessive pleiotropic gene conditioning unifoliolate leaves and cauliflower inflorescences in sweetclover. Can. J. Genet. Cytol. 9: 136-140.
• GOLPEN, B.P. 1969. Forage yield and other agronomic traits of high- and low-coumarin isosynthetics of sweetclover. Crop Sci. 9: 477-480.
• GOLPEN, B.P. 1971. Polara, a low coumarin cultivar of sweetclover. Can. J. Plant Sci. 51; 249-251.
• GOLPEN, B.P. 1981. Norgold-a low coumarin yellow blossum sweetclover. Can. J. Plant Sci. 61: 1019-1021.
• GOLPEN, B.P. 1982. Registration of Norgold sweetclover. Crop Sci. 22: 1088.
• GOPLEN, B.P. 1992. A recessive gene for white sepal color in  sweetclover, Melilotus alba L. Can. J. Plant Sci. 72:1259-1262. 
• GORZ, H.J. and HASKINS, F.A. 1964. Occurrence of o-hydroxycinnamic  acid in species of Melilotus and Trigonella. Crop Sci.  4: 193-196. 
• GORZ, H.J. and HASKINS, F.A. 1969. Absence of dominance of the Cu gene in influencing o-hydroxycinnamic acid content in Melilotus  alba. Crop Sci. 9: 79-81. 
• GORZ, H.J., F.A. HASKINS, G.R. MANGLITZ, R.R. SMITH, and K.P. VOGEL.  1992. Registration of N27 sweetclover germplasm. Crop Sci. 32:509. 
• GORZ, H.J., F.A. HASKINS, G.R. MANGLITZ, R.R. SMITH, and K.P. VOGEL.  1992. Registration of N28 and N29 sweetclover germplasms. Crop Sci.  32:510-511. 
• GORZ, H.J., J.E., SPECHT, and F.A. HASKINS. 1975. Inheritance of seed  and seedling color in sweetclover. Crop Sci. 15:235-238. 
• GREENSHIELDS, J.E.R. 1954. Embryology of interspecific crosses in Melilotus. Can. J. Bot. 32:447-465.
• GUO, X; and L. WU. 1998. Distribution of free seleno-amino acids in  plant tissue of Melilotus indica L. grown in selenium-laden  soils. Ecotox. Environ. Safety 39:207-214.
• GYüRGYPAL, Z., N. IYER, and A. KONDOROSI. 1988. Three regulatory nodD alleles of diverged flavonoid-specificity are involved in  host-dependent nodulation by Rhizobium meliloti. Mol. Gen.  Genet. 212:85-92.
• HARMAN, J.R. 1992. Sweetclover-an important honey plant in North  America, but not every year. Amer. Bee J. 132: 169-171. 
• HARTWIG, E.E. 1942. Inheritance of growth habit, cotyledon color and  cup-leaf in Melilotus alba. J. Am. Soc. Agron. 34: 160-166.
• HASKINS, F.A. and GORZ, H.J. 1961. A reappraisal of the relationship  between free and bound coumarin in Melilotus. Crop Sci. 1:  320-323. 
• HASKINS F.A. and H.J. GORZ. 1970. Fluorometric assay of free and  bound cis- and trans-o-hydroxycinnamic acid in a  single plant extract. Crop Sci. 10:608-609. 
• HASKINS F.A. and H.J. GORZ. 1970. Rapid detection of o-hydroxycinnamic  acid and beta-glucosidase in Melilotus alba. Crop Sci.  10:479-481. 
• HASKINS, F.A. and H.J. GORZ. 1965. Absence of dominance of the B gene  in influencing Ö-glucosidase activity in Melilotus alba. Genetics 51:733-738.
• HASKINS, F.A. and T. KOSUGE. 1965. Genetic control of the metabolism  of o-hydroxycinnamic acid precursors in Melilotus alba. Genetics  52:1059-1068.
• HILAIRE,  E., PAULSEN, A.Q., BROWN, C.S., and GUIKEMA, J.A.  1995.  Effects of clinorotation and microgravity on sweet clover columella cells treated with cytochalasin D.   Physiol. Plant.  95:267-273. 
• HILAIRE,  E., PAULSEN, A.Q., BROWN, C.S., and GUIKEMA, J.A.  1995. Microgravity and clinorotation cause redistribution of free calcium in sweet clover columella cells.  Plant Cell Physiol.  36:831-837.
• HIRAKAWA, T., OKAWA, M., KINJO, J., AND NOHARA, T. 2000. A new oleanene glucuronide obtained from the aerial parts of Melilotus officinalis. Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo). 48:286-7. 
• HIRSCH, A.M, LUM, M.R. KRUPP, R.S.N. YANG, W. and KARLOWSKI, W.M. 2000. Melilotus alba Desr., white sweetclover, a mellifluous model legume. In: Prokaryotic Nitrogen Fixation: A Model System for the Analysis of a Biological Process. E.W. Triplett (ed.). Horizon Scientific Press. pp. 627-642.
• HIRSCH, A.M., Y. FANG, P. VAN RHIJN, S. GALILI, O. SHAUL, N. ATZMON,  S. WINIGER, Y. ESHEAD, Y. LI, V. TO, and Y. KAPULNIK. 1997. Studies on MsENOD40 gene expression in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and  white sweetclover (Melilotus alba Desr.) In: A. Legocki, H.  Bothe, and A. PÇhler. Biological Fixation of Nitrogen for Ecology  and Sustainable Agriculture. NATO ASI Series, Vol. G39. Springer-Verlag,  Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 33-36. 
• HIRSCH, A.M., LARUE, T.A., NORRIS, J.H., and WEEDEN, N.F. 1998.  Studies on the diploid indeterminate nodule-forming plant Melilotus  alba Desr., white sweetclover. In: K.A. Malik, M.S. Mirza and J.K.  Ladha (eds.), Nitrogen Fixation with Non-Legumes. Kluwer Academic  Publishers, Dordrecht. pp. 187-194. 
• HONMA, M.A. and F.M. AUSUBEL. 1987. Rhizobium meliloti has  three functional copies of the nodD symbiotic regulatory gene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 84:8558-8562.
• HONMA, M.A., M. ASOMANING, and F.M. AUSUBEL. 1990. Rhizobium  meliloti nodD genes mediate host-specific activation of nodABC. J. Bacteriol. 172:901-911.
• HORVATH, B., KONDOROSI, E., JOHN, M., SCHMIDT, J., TOROK, I., GYüRGYPAL, Z., BARABAS, I., WIENEKE, U., SCHELL, J., and KONDOROSI A. 1986. Organization, structure and symbiotic function of Rhizobium meliloti nodulation genes determining host specificity for alfalfa. Cell 46:335-343. 
• JARANOWSKI, J. 1964. Potential value of a dwarf mutant in breeding  coumarin deficient forms of white sweet clover (Melilotus albus). Der Zuechter 34:168-172.
• KAHNT, G. 1962. Isolierung des trans- und  cis-o-Oxyzimtsaeureglucosids aus Steinkleeblaettern (Melilotus albus)  und Umwandlung der trans-Form in die isomere Verbindung in vivo und in  vitro durch Sonnenlicht. Naturwiss. 49:207-208.
• KAHNT, G. 1963. Veraenderungen des Glucosids der o-Oxyzimtsaeure in  den Blaettern des weissen Steinklees (Melilotus albus) waehrend  der Ontogenese der Pflanze. Angew. Botanik 37:131-161.
• KAHNT, G. und W.J. SCH0EN. 1962. Zur quantitativen Analyse des  Cumarins und des Glucosids der Cumarinsaeure in Blaettern von Melilotus  albus. Angew. Botanik 36:33-49.
• KASPERBAUER, M.J., H.A. BORTHWICK and H.M.CATHEY  1963.  Cyclic  lighting for promotion of flowering of sweet clover, Melilotus alba Desr. Crop Sci. 3,230-232.
• KHODAKOV, G.V., AKIMOV, Y.A., SHASHKOV, A.S., KINTIA, P.K., and GRISHKOVETS, V.I.  1996.  Triterpene and steroid saponins isolated from two Melilotus species.  Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 405:211-22.
• KIRPICHEV, I.V. 1998. The mechanism and the rate of crown retraction  into soil in Melilotus albus. Russ. J. Plant Physiol.  45:398-401. 
• KLEINHOFS, A., H.J. GORZ, and F.A. HASKINS. 1968. Mutation induction  in Melilotus alba annua by chemical mutagens.  Crop Sci.  8:631-632. 
• KNEEN, B.E. and T.A. LARUE. 1988. Induced symbiotic mutants of pea (Pisum sativum) and sweetclover (Melilotus alba annua). Plant Sci. 58:177-182. 
• KOSUGE, T. 1961. Studies on the identity of bound coumarin in  sweetclover. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 95: 211-216.
• KRESS, H. und G.SCHLOSSER-SZIGAT (1961) Uber den "suessen"  Steinklee, Melilotus albus.  Forschungen und Fortschritte  35:232-235.
• LANG, R.C. and GORZ, H.J. 1960. Factors affecting embryo development  in crosses of Melilotus officinalis x  M. alba. Agron. J.  52: 71-74.
• LI, R., J.J. VOLENEC, B.C. JOERN, and S.M. CUNNINGHAM. 1996. Seasonal  changes in non-structural carbohydrates, protein, and macronutrients in  roots of alfalfa, red clover, sweetclover, and birdsfoot trefoil. Crop  Sci. 36:617-623. 
• MACIAS, F.A., A.M. SIMONET, J.C.G. GALINDO, and D. CASTELLANO. 1999.  Bioactive phenolics and polar compounds from Melilotus messanensis. Phytochemistry. 50:35-46.
• MACIAS, F.A., A.M. SIMONET, J.C.G. GALINDO, P.C. PACHECO and others.  1998. Bioactive polar triterpenoids from Melilotus messanensis. Phytochemistry. 49:709-717.
• MACIAS, F.A., SIMONET, A.M., and GALINDO, J.C.G. 1997. Bioactive  steroids and triterpenes from Melilotus messanensis and their  allelopathic potential. J. Chem. Ecol. 2:1781-1803. 
• MACIAS, FA., SIMONET, A.M., ESTEBAN, M.D., and GALINDO, J.C.G. 1996.  Triterpenoids from Melilotus messanensis - soyasapogenol G, the  first natural carbonate derivative. Phytochemistry, 41:1573-1577. 
• MAEKAWA, M., HASEN, and F. KITA. 1991. Identification of reciprocal  translocations observed in several Melilotus species (subgenus Eumelilotus) by interspecific triple crossings. Euphytica.  54:255-261. 
• MICKE, A. 1955. Die Auswirkungen einer Roentgenbestrahlung  lufttrockener Samen von Melilotus albus Desr. auf die  Bestrahlungsgeneration und deren Nachkommenschaften. Dissertation zur  Erlangung des Doktor-Grades, Justus Liebig -Universitat Giessen, BRD.
• MICKE, A. 1957. Eine vereinfachte Methode zur Pruefung von  Steinklee-Individuen auf Cumarin. Der Zuechter 27:179-181.
• MICKE, A. 1957. Ueber die Auslosung isotomer Sprossgabelungen bei Melilotus albus durch Roentgenbestrahlung der Samen. Angew.  Botanik 31:106-116.
• MICKE, A. 1958. Mutationszuechtung beim weissen Steinklee (Melilotus  albus) mit Hilfe von Roentgenstrahlen. Z. Pflanzenzuechtg.  39:419-437.
• MICKE, A. 1959. Wachstumsfoerderung bei Melilotus albus durch  schwache Neutronenbestrahlung trockener Samen. Naturwiss. 46:407-408.
• MICKE, A. 1961. Comparison of the effects of x-rays and thermal  neutrons on viability and growth of sweet clover (Melilotus albus)  after irradiation of dry seeds. In: Effects of Ionizing Radiation on  Seeds. Proceedings of an Internat. Symposium, Karlsruhe (FRG).  p.403-410. IAEA, Vienna.
• MICKE, A. 1961. Mutation work in Melilotus alba. In: Report  of the Ninth Sweetclover Improvement Conference. Madison, Wisconsin,  USA. (H.J.GORZ and W.K.SMITH, ed.) University of Wisconsin. p. l0-11.
• MICKE, A. 1962. Eine bitterstoffreie Mutante bei Melilotus albus nach Bestrahlung von Samen mit thermischen Neutronen. Naturwiss. 49:332.
• MICKE, A. 1962. Genetische Untersuchungen beim weissen Steinklee (Melilotus  albus). I. Ueber die Vererbung der Faehigkeit zur Bildung von  Cumarinsaeureglykosid. Z. Pflanzenzuechtg. 48:1-13.
• MICKE, A. 1962. Morphological, physiological and genetical effects of  X-rays and thermal neutrons in Melilotus albus. Paper presented  at the Second International Congress of Radiation Research, Harrogate,  Yorkshire UK, 5- 11 August 1962.
• MICKE, A. 1963. Genetisch-zuechterische Arbeiten beim weissen  Steinklee. Z. Acker- und Pflanzenbau 116:354-360.
• MICKE, A. 1965. Unusual reaction of sweet clover seeds to x-radiation  at different moisture contents and to post-irradiation storage. Nature  205:1126.
• MICKE, A. 1966. Der Einfluss modifizierender Faktoren auf die Wirkung  ionisierender Strahlen bei pflanzlichen Samen. Z.Pflanzenzuechtg.  55:29-66.
• MICKE, A. 1966. Modification of radiosensitivity in seeds of  different plant species by secondary factors. In: Mechanism of Mutation  and Inducing Factors. Proc. of the Symposium on the Mutational Process,  Prague (CSSR), 9-11 August 1965. p. 27-32. Academia Prague. Publishing  House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
• MICKE, A. 1968. Modification of radiosensitivity and of genetical  radiation effects.(Final Report of IAEA Research Contract No.396) In:  IAEA Research Contracts - Eighth Annual Report. Technical Report Series  No. 85. p. 42-43. IAEA, Vienna.
• MICKE, A. 1969. Improvement of low yielding sweet clover mutants by  heterosis breeding. In: Induced Mutations in Plants. Proc. of a FAO/IAEA  Symposium, Pullman (USA) 1969. p. 541-550. IAEA Vienna.
• MICKE, A. 1969. Utilization of induced mutants as hybrids. In: Proc.  Fifth Congress of the European Association for Research on Plant  Breeding EUCARPIA, Milano (Italy) 1968 (Edit. G. C. CHISCI,  G.HAUSSMANN). p. 262-268 . Genetica Agraria.
• MICKE, A. 1969. Zur Frage der mutagenen Wirkung wiederholter  Roentgenbestrahlungen. Naturwiss. 56:40.
• MICKE, A. 1974. Heterosis bei Kreuzung von Mutanten derselben  Ausgangsform. In: Bericht ueber die Arbeitstagung 1974 der  Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Saatzuchtleiter, Gumpenstein (Oesterreich). p.  314-328. Verlag der Bundesversuchsanstalt fur alpenlaendische  Landwirtschaft Gumpenstein.
• MICKE, A. 1975. Zur Wahl von induzierten Mutanten fur die  Kreuzungszuechtung. In: Bericht ueber die Arbeitstagung 1975 der  Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Saatzuchtleiter, Gumpenstein (Oesterreich). p.  249-260. Verlag der Bundesversuchsanstalt fur alpenlaendische  Landwirtschaft, Gumpenstein.
• MICKE, A. 1976. Hybrid vigour in mutant crosses - Prospects and  problems of exploitation studied with mutants of sweet clover. In:  Induced Mutations in Cross Breeding. Proc. of FAO/IAEA Advisory Group,  Vienna (Austria) 1975. p. l99-218. IAEA Vienna.
• MILBRATH, L.R. and M.J. WEISS. 1998. Development, survival and  phenology of the sweetclover weevil parasitoid Pygostolus falcatus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Great Lakes Entolmol. 31:129-136.
• MILLER, J.E., D.R. VIANDS, and T.A. LARUE. 1991. Inheritance of  nonnodulating mutants of sweetclover. Crop Sci. 31:948-952. 
• MILLER, J.E., D.R. VIANDS, T.A. LARUE, and H.J. GORZ. 1991.  Cross-pollination technique for spontaneously self-pollinated  sweetclover. Crop Sci. 32:475-476. 
• MUIR, A.D. and B.P. GOPLEN. 1992. Quantitative reversed-phase HPLC  analysis of dicoumarol in sweetclover hay and silage samples. J. Agric.  Food Chem. 40:820-823. 
• MUIR, A.D. and J.J. SOROKA. 1992. HPLC-ion chromatographic analysis  of nitrate in plant tissues and its application to sweetclover (Melilotus spp.) seedlings. J. Agric. Food Chem. 40: 1602-1605. 
• NATERA, S.H., GUERREIRO, N., AND DJORDJEVIC, M.A.. 2000. Proteome analysis of differentially displayed proteins as a tool for the investigation of symbiosis. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 13:995-1009. 
• NOVAKOVA, J. 1997. Retreat of halophytes in the Czech Republic:  Agricultural, mining, and urbanization effects [The case of Dentated  Melilot Melilotus dentata (Fabaceae)]. J. Agri. Environ. Ethics  10:69-78.
• OGAWA, J., BRIERLEY, H.L., and LONG, S.R. 1991. Analysis of Rhizobium meliloti nodulation mutant WL131: novel insertion sequence ISRm3 in nodG and altered nodH protein product. J. Bacteriol. 173:3060-3065. 
• ORESNIK, I.J., CHARLES, T.C., and FINAN, T.M.  1994.  Second site mutations specifically suppress the Fix- phenotype of Rhizobium meliloti ndvF mutations on alfalfa: identification of a conditional ndvF-dependent mucoid colony phenotype.  Genetics136:1233-43.
• POULTON, J.E. McREE, D.E., and CONN, E.E. 1980. Intracellular localization of two enzymes involved in coumarin biosynthesis in Melilotus alba. Plant Physiol. 65:171-175.
• ROEMER, F.W. 1973. Heterosis und Kombinationseignung in diallelen  Kreuzungen von strahleninduzierten Steinklee-Mutanten. Z.  Pflanzenzuechtg. 70:323-348.
• ROEMER, F.W. 1974. Bedeutung der Selbstungsanteile bei der Ermittlung  der allgemeinen Kombinationseignung von Steinklee Mutanten nach einem  Polycross. Z. Pflanzenzuechtg. 71:151-169.
• ROEMER, F.W. and MICKE, A. 1974. Combining ability and heterosis of  radiation-induced mutants of Melilotus albus Des. In: Polyploidy  and Induced Mutations in Plant Breeding. Proc. of two meetings organized  by FAO/IAEA and EUCARPIA, Bari (Italy) 1972. p.275-276. IAEA Vienna.
• ROMERO, J.M. and MARANON, T. 1996. Allocation of biomass and mineral  elements in Melilotus segetalis (annual sweetclover) - effects  of NaCl salinity and plant age. New Phytol. 132:565-573. 
• RONNENKAMP, R.R., F.A. HASKINS, and H.J. GORZ. 1973. Genetic studies  of induced mutants in Melilotus alba. III. Folded leaflet,  elongated stem, and short-petiole dwarf. Crop Sci. 13:320-321. 
• RONNENKAMP, R.R., H.J. GORZ, and F.A. HASKINS. 1975. Genetic studies  of induced mutants in Melilotus alba. IV. Inheritance and  complementation of six additional chlorophyll-deficient mutants. Crop  Sci. 15:187-188. 
• RUDORF, W. 1959. Melilotus albus Desr. und Melilotus  officinalis (L.) Desr. In: Handb. Pflanzenzuechtg. Vol. IV, 218-238.  Parey, Berlin
• RUDORF, W. und P. SCHWARZE. 1958. Beitrage zur Zuechtung eines  cumarinfreien Steinklees und Untersuchungen ueber Cumarin und verwandte  Verbindungen. Z. Pflanzenzuechtg. 39:245-274.
• SAN ANTONIO, J.P. 1952. The role of coumarin in the growth of roots  of Melilotus alba. Bot. Gaz. 114:79-95.
• SANO, Y. 1977. The pollination system of Melilotus species.  Oecol. Plant. 12:383-394.
• SANO, Y. and F. KITA 1975. Cytological studies of several  interspecific Fl hybrids in the subgenus Eumelilotus. J. Fac.  Agr. Hokkaido Univ. 58:225-246.
• SANO, Y. and F. KITA 1978. Genes for reproductive isolation located  on rearranged chromosomes. Heredity 41:377-383.
• SANO, Y. and F. KITA 1978. Reproductive barriers distributed in Melilotus species and their genetic bases. Can. J. Genet. Cytol. 20:275-289.
• SCHAEFFER, G.W., HASKINS, F.A. and GORZ, H.J. 1960. Genetic control  of coumarin biosynthesis and Ö-glucosidase activity in Melilotus  alba. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 3: 268-271. 
• SCHEIBE, A. and MICKE, A. 1967. Experimentally induced mutations in  leguminous forage plants and their agronomic value. In: Induzierte  Mutationen und ihre Nutzung (Induced Mutations and their Utilization)  Erwin-Baur Gedaechtnisvorlesungen IV. Gatersleben 20-24 June 1966. p.  231-236. Akademie-Verlag Berlin.
• SCHEIBE, A. und G. HUELSMANN 1957. Ueber das Auttreten  bitterstoffarmer Pflanzen von Melilotus albus in der  C2-Generation nach Behandlung mit mutagenen Chemikalien. Naturwiss.  44:17-18.
• SCHEIBE, A. und G.HUELSMANN 1958. Mutationsausloesung durch  Chemikalien beim Steinklee (Melilotus albus). Z. Pflanzenzuechtg. 39:299-324.
• SCHLOSSER-SZIGAT, G. 1961. Untersuchungen an Pfropfungen mit  cumarinarmen und cumarinreichen Melilotus - Arten. Biol. Zbl.  80,261-280.
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