The stockpiled forage canopy consists of tillers at different ages, which have specific development patterns. objective was to understand the Urochloa brizantha cv. Marandu during stockpiling period, by morphogenic evaluation ages. experiment conducted in a completely randomized design, split plot scheme, with four replications. Three ages (young, mature and old) two periods (initial final) wer...

Historic breeding efforts in corn (Zea mays L.) have resulted uniform, single-stalked phenotypes with limited potential for environmental plasticity. Therefore, plant density is a critical yield component corn, as unable to successfully compensate deficit of plants. Other grass crop species can overcome deficits via vegetative branching (tillering), but this trait historically undesirable corn....