Cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.) is an important cool season grass species in the moderate climate of Iran. In order to evaluate the yield and quality traits, an experiment was conducted in irrigation conditions using 36 accessions of Dactylis glomerata using a randomized complete block design with three replications in Islamabad, Kermanshah province, Iran in 2010. Characters such as forage dr...

The emergence of cloud computing, big data analytics, and machine learning has catalysed the use remote sensing technologies to enable more timely management sustainability indicators, given uncertainty future climate conditions. Here, we examine potential “regenerative agriculture”, as an adaptive grazing strategy minimise bare ground exposure while improving pasture productivity. High-intensi...

Leaf blotch is a globally important disease of barley crops and other grasses that is caused by at least five host-specialised species in the fungal genus Rhynchosporium. The pathogen R. commune (specialised to barley, brome-grass and Italian ryegrass) has long been considered to reproduce only by asexual means, but there has been accumulating evidence for recombination and gene flow from popul...

VASILEVA, V., E. VASILEV and R. TZONEV, 2016. Subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.) as a promising forage species in Bulgaria. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 22: 222–227 The paper presents an overview of the possibility to use the subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.) (an annual leguminous self-seeding species, widespread component in the pastures of the temperate areas of Central an...

This study was designed to evaluate the effect of the physical form of a hay diet on (1) in situ DM and NDF degradation rate and (2) postprandial evolution of pH and VFA concentrations, in the cecum and the right ventral colon of ponies. Four gelded ponies, ®tted with cannulae in the cecum and the right ventral colon, were kept on wood shavings and fed twice daily a maintenance diet composed of...