Most studies examining endophytic fungi associated with grasses (Poaceae) have focused on agronomically important species in managed ecosystems or on wild grasses in subtropical, temperate and boreal grasslands. However grasses first arose in tropical forests, where they remain a significant and diverse component of understory and forest-edge communities. To provide a broader context for unders...

Almost all that is known about the transition to flowering in grasses is based on studies of agronomic species. The grain produced by two tropically derived grasses, maize (Zea mays) and rice (Oryza sativa), and a temperate origin grass, wheat (Triticum aestivum), provides most of the world’s food. Other grasses, such as barley (Hordeum vulgare), ryegrass species (Lolium spp.), sorghum (Sorghum...

Apart from being a bioaccumulator, several studies have also proven that water hyacinth has the potential to be an ingredient for animal feed and organic fertilizer because it contains amino acids other nutritional elements. This research consists of 2 stages. The first stage is effect using probiotics fermented on quality fiber fraction. 4 types used were liquid supplements (SOC), burger sauce...

The objective of the experiment was to develop cropping sequence modules for round year green fodder production feeding 50 dairy cattle under irrigated conditions in North-West Himalayan region. Various were initiated at Research Farm Instructional Livestock Centre, R.S. Pura, FVSc. & A.H., SKUAST-Jammu during 2016 an area 2.5 ha. experimental data collected after fully establishing unit 20...

Studies to study the adaptive responses of self-renewing legume-grass stands were carried out in 2018-2021 at agroecological station VNIIMZ (Tver region). The object research was pasture herbage with participation rhizomatous grasses: giant bentgrass variety VIK-2, meadow bluegrass Balin and red fescue Maxima, their productivity studied under conditions uneven precipitation. It revealed that mo...

Agriculture and livestock production systems are two major emitters of greenhouse gases. Methane with a GWP (global warming potential) of 21, and nitrous oxide (N2O) with a GWP of 300, are largely emitted from animal production agriculture, where livestock production is based on pasture and feed grains. The principal biological processes involved in N2O emissions are nitrification and denitrifi...

The Collared Crescentchest (Melanopareia torquata) is a small insectivore endemic to the Cerrado. We examine the habitat use of this bird in a preserved Cerrado area in southeastern Brazil. Despite its occurrence in grassland with shrubs, the species used these areas less frequently than expected. The Collared Crescentchest mainly used areas of campo cerrado, but it was not recorded in a distur...

The grasses, members of the family Gramineae or Poaceae, are represented by over 10,000 species (Kellogg and Birchler 1993). Three of the domesticated grasses, rice, wheat, and maize, account for about half of total world food production. Although the oldest known grass fossils have been found in paleocene-eocene deposits that are ∼50–60 million years old (Crepet and Feldman 1991), morphologica...

BACKGROUND The cereal crops domesticated from grasses provide a large percentage of the calories consumed by humans. Domestication and breeding in individual cereals has historically occurred in isolation, although this is rapidly changing with comparative genomics of the sequenced or soon-to-be sequenced genomes of rice, sorghum, maize and Brachypodium. Genetic information transferred through ...