Natural pastures constitute a major component of ruminant livestock feed, and are the most cost-effective feed resource available for smallholder subsistence farmers. However, this feed resource does not meet animal n...
It is ordinarily common for forage production in southern Kyushu to adopt a double cropping system, composed of summer forage crops (e.g. maize and sorghum) cultivated from late March to early September, and winter gr...
Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] is the major cereal crop in Ethiopia. Increasing tef yield requires improving soil phosphorus (P) supply and identifying P efficient varieties. An experiment was conducted at Wenag...
The experimental site “Sial Morr Sugar mill, District Sargodha” Punjab, Pakistan was selected to carry out present investigation. The forage samples of Eragrostis pilosa, Dactyloctenium aegyptium, Parthenium hystero...
Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.)Trotter] is an ancient and major cereal crop in Ethiopia. Increasing tef grain yield partly requires developing cultivars that are adapted to drought stress environment. An experiment was ca...
This work was aimed at identifying genes that show altered expression profiles in response to changes in ploidy and/or reproductive mode (from sexual to apomictic) in the African grass Eragrostis curvula. A differenti...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.90202015);Innovation Study Project from Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.KZCX3-SW-324,KZCX1-09);State Key Project for Basic Research"the Process of Desertification and Its Control in the Northern China"(Grant No.G2000048704).
Taking annual plant Eragrostis poaeides in the artificial vegetation-stabilized sand dune in the Shapotou Experimental Research Station as example, study has been done on the adaptation strategies of annual plants to ...