Determination of Forage Yield and Quality of Some Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) Genotypes Selected From Clone Plots

This research carried out to determine forage yield and quality of different alfalfa (medicago sativa l.) genotypes under isparta conditions in 2014-2015. in present study, 15 different alfalfa genotypes that supplied from tubitak 110 o 257 and bilensoy and gea cultivars were used. this study specified hay yield, crude content, adf, ndf, ddm and rfv in the alfalfa genotypes. end of the present research; the highest hay yields were obtained from çay^-1 (28.79 t ha^-1), keçiborlu^-1 (26.88 t ha^-1), keçiborlu-3 (25.98 t ha^-1) and çay-2 (25.77 t ha^-1) genotypes, the highest crude protein contents were obtained from sandıklı^-1 (22.18%) and çay^-2 (22.13%) genotypes, the highest adf content was obtained from akşehir-2 (32.9%) genotype, the highest ndf content was obtained from yeşilova-2 (43.93%) genotype, the highest ddm values was obtained from keçiborlu-3 (67.67%) genotype, the highest rfv values were obtained from keçiborlu-3 (157.9) and çay-2 (157.7) genotypes. çay-1, keçiborlu3, keçiborlu-1 and çay-2 genotoypes can be used in breeding study because of their high forage yield and quality values.