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Pastures-Congresses.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This book is collection of papers from the proceedings of the XIV International Grassland Congress held in the Center for the Arts at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. The papers cover seed production, soil fertility, grassland ecology, and mechanization and treatment of forages.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (897 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781000236392
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5896635
DDC:
333.74
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Opening Ceremony -- Opening Business Meeting -- Final Business Meeting -- Closing Ceremony -- Tours and Exhibits -- Committees for the XIV Congress -- PLENARY PAPERS -- Forage quality: assessing the plant-animal complex -- Use of genetic resources for improvement of forage species -- Potential productivity of temperate and tropical grassland systems -- Contribution of forages to worldwide food production: now and in the future -- Practical livestock-forage systems: model to manager -- Nitrogen relationships in grassland ecosystems -- Multiple use of grassland resources -- Physiological and morphological advances for forage improvement -- Resource allocation for animal-grassland systems -- Competitive, adaptive, and evolutionary process in grassland ecosystems -- INVITED PAPERS -- Grassland development in Japan and other Asian countries -- Livestock resources in the world food supply -- SECTION PAPERS -- SECTION I: PLANT INTRODUCTION, EVALUATION, AND BREEDING -- Seedling traits as possible selection tools for improving seedling emergence of Astragalus cicer L. -- Selection for bluegreen aphid resistance in subterranean clover -- A study of the breeding potential of a population of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) -- Breeding for disease resistance in red clover -- Resistance to Kabatiella caulivora in Trifolium subterraneum -- Subterranean clover improvement: an Australian program -- Second-generation progeny tests for forage breeding -- Effects of root diameter, nematodes, and soil compaction on forage yield of two tall fescue genotypes -- Pooling the genetic resources of the crested wheatgrass species-complex -- Breeding for higher magnesium content in orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) -- Spaced plants in swards as a testing procedure in grass breeding.
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Use of temperature and moisture indices to delineate the global adaptation of two tropical pasture species -- Procedure for selecting subterranean clover cultivars in south Western Australia -- Improving the efficiency of forage-crop breeding -- Improvement of pollen and seed fertility in Lolium-Festuca hybrids -- Selection effect for digestibility of summer regrowth in orchardgrass -- A simple method of evaluating forage digestibility and its application to sorghum breeding -- Fermentation potential of vegetation from various herbaceous plants following enzymatic hydrolysis -- Cyanogenesis in dhurrin-containingforage grasses -- lnterspecific hybrids between apomictic forms of Poa palustris L. × Poa pratensis L. -- Improvement of forage quality of tall fescue through Lolium-Festuca hybridization -- Breeding of apomictic Eragrostis curvula -- Use of embryo culture with nurse endosperm for interspecific hybridization in pasture legumes -- Differential interspecific compatibilities among genotypes of Trifolium sarosiense and T. pratense -- Successful hybridization of red clover with perennial Trifolium species via embryo rescue -- Phylogenetic investigations of Paspalum dilatatum and related species -- Cytology and breeding behavior of cicer milkvetch -- Differences in photosynthetic types in the Laxa group of the Panicum genus: cytogenetics and reproduction -- Breeding challenges in apomictic warm-season grasses -- Genetics and utilization of apomixis for the improvement of guineagrass (Panicum maximum Jacq.) -- Preliminary evaluation of legume germ plasm in the cerrados of Brazil -- Adaptation and utilization of three legumes in China -- Hedysarum mongolicum Turcz.: an important protein resource legume on dry sandy land -- Rhizoma peanut: perennial warm-season forage legume.
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Performance and variability of agronomic characters in populations of Stylosanthes guianensis (Aubl.) Sw. -- White clover: an old crop with a promising future -- Genetic variability for morphological and agronomic characters in Desmodium uncinatum (Jacq.) D.C. and D. intortum (Mill.) Urb. -- Value of white sweet lupin in production of protein fodder and feeding of animals -- Selection for specific leaf weight in reed canarygrass and its effects on the plant -- Effective selection for tolerance to grass-killing herbicides in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) -- Comparison of Italian ryegrass and meadow fescue with F₂, F₃, and F₄ hybrids of both grass species -- Breeding Centrosema pubescens better adapted to the acid infertile soils of South America -- Evaluation of within-half-sib family selection from Leo birdsfoot trefoil -- Evolution of selection techniques in breeding for bloat-safe alfalfa -- Development of gama medic (Medicago rugosa Desr.) as an annual leguminous species for dryland farming systems in southern Australia -- Productivity of forage legumes on rice-paddy walls in northeast Thailand -- Alfalfa breeding for forage yield and low saponin content -- Forage quality of barley straw as influenced by genotype -- Neutral detergent fiber and protein levels in diploid and tetraploid ryegrass forage -- Collections of western wheatgrass and blue grama and associated nematode genera in the western Dakotas -- Test adaptation and evaluation trials of forage plants in major ecological regions of Ethiopia and Kenya -- Growth and development of two Echinochloa millet species in a warm temperate climate -- Summer dormancy in Italian populations of Dactylis golmerata L. -- SECTION II: SEED PRODUCTION -- Trials on time of nitrogen application in the spring to various grasses grown for seed production.
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Postharvest residue burning as a management tool in grass-seed production -- Effect of autumn and spring defoliation and defoliation method on seed yield of Lolium perenne -- Seed production for the establishment of Pennisetum americanum × P. purpureum F₁ hybrid pastures -- Effect of different systems of seed treatment, packing, and storage on vigor and germination of five tropical forage legumes -- Inefficient conversion of floret populations to actual seed harvested in grass-seed crops -- Selection for seed retention in Phalaris aquatica L. -- Improved processing for high-quality seed of big bluestem, Andropogon gerardii, and yellow indiangrass, Sorghastrum nutans -- Seed-production potentials of eight tropical pasture species in regions of Latin America -- SECTION Ill: SOIL FERTILITY -- Phosphorus utilization in grassland ecosystems -- Availability of soil phosphate to tropical pasture species -- Manurial value of liquid, anaerobically digested sewage sludge on grassland in the west of Scotland -- Waste-water application, dry-matter production, and nitrogen balance of rhodesgrass grown on fine-textured soil or on sand dunes -- Effect of converting chaparral to grassland on soil fertility in a Mediterranean-type climate -- Effect of N-P-K fertilization on mineral composition of Poa pratensis L. grown on a shallow muck soil -- Some effects of applied nitrogen on grass growth in field swards at different times of year -- Effect of lime on lucerne in relation to soil acidity factors -- Liming for tropical legume establishment and production -- Residual effects of two years of very high nitrogen applications on clay soil under grass in a humid temperate climate -- Impact of phosphorus and potassium fertilization on maintaining alfalfa-orchardgrass swards in Hokkaido, Japan.
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Suitability of early Pleistocene sandy lowlands for the cultivation of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) -- Phytotoxic response of five range-grass species to six in-situ fossil-fuel retort waters -- Prediction of the supply of soil nitrogen to grass -- Soil nutrient constraints for legume-based pastures in the Brazilian cerrados -- Pasture production and changes in soil fertility on a long-term irrigated superphosphate trial at Winchmore, New Zealand -- SECTION IV: THE NITROGEN CYCLE -- Interactions between grasses and rhizosphere nitrogen-fixing bacteria -- Selection of Rhizobium strains for enhanced dinitrogen fixation in forage legume production -- Photosynthate supply and nitrogen fixation in forage legumes -- Symbiotic nitrogen fixation of alfalfa, birdsfoot trefoil, and red clover -- Effects of grazing management on seasonal variation in nitrogen fixation -- Nitrogen losses from urine-affected areas of a New Zealand pasture, under contrasting seasonal conditions -- Annual losses of ammonia from a grazed pasture fertilized with urea -- Fate of nitrogen applied to grassland in animal wastes -- SECTION V: MULTIPLE USE OF GRASSLAND -- Progress in development of conservation plant cultivars by the USDA Soil Conservation Service -- Effects of topsoil depths and species selection on reclamation of coal-strip-mine spoils -- Savanna ecosystems in tropical South America: findings from a computerized land-resource survey -- Hail as an ecological factor in the increase of pricklypear cactus -- Nutritional quality of leaf proteins prepared from crops containing phenolic compounds and polyphenolase -- Evaluation of biological components in decision-making in forage allocation -- Pasture evaluation in the desertic zone of Venezuela for the development of goat production -- Grassland development in the southern highlands of Peru.
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Interception of rainfall by creosotebush (Larrea tridentata).
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