Jesús Navas-Castillo

May 19, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Animal Biosciences |Biotechnology Laboratory |Jesús Navas-Castillo |Manoj K. Solanki

1. Introduction The productivity of alfalfa, the most extensively cultivated forage legume in the world and the third most widely grown crop in the United States, has often been affected and limited by different diseases, insect pests, and abiotic stress factors (Monteros and Bouton, 2009).