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Fact sheet: Neptune messina

Fact sheet for Neptune messina featuring text, research logos from AgriFutures and South Australian Research & Development Institute, and images of green clover-like leaves. A highlighted box lists Neptune messina’s key agriculture features for pasture use.

  • 4 pages

  • Published: 5 Dec 2018

  • Author(s): Ross Ballard

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Project Overview

Capitalising on the discovery of Messina for the pasture seeds Industry

15 June 2015 – 30 May 2018

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Neptune messina is an annual pasture legume adapted to moderately saline, winter-waterlogged soils. It has higher levels of combined tolerance to salinity and waterlogging than all other pasture legumes. It produces more biomass than other pasture legume options recommended for saline land; early season balansa clover and burr medic.

This fact sheet offers technical information on the adaptation, establishment and management of messina.

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