Forage breeding for changing environments and production systems: an overview

The 4th International Symposium of Forage Breeding was held at AgriBio, The Centre for AgriBioscience, Melbourne Australia from 23-25 September 2013.More than 100 delegates from around the world attended the symposium which featured sessions on genetic resources and novel species, breeding and managing symbiosis, overcoming abiotic stresses, forage quality and nutritive value, breeding for new environments and production systems, biotic stresses and disease tolerance, economic impact of genetic improvement of forages, new traits and technologies in forage breeding and whole genome selection in forages.