The persistence and productivity of forage grasses, important sources for feed production, are threatened by climate change-induced drought. Breeding programs in search new drought tolerant grass varieties, but those still rely on time-consuming less consistent visual scoring breeders. In this study, we evaluate whether Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based remote sensing can complement or replac...

Natural fodder lands are a base for livestock production in Bryansk region. The cover the area of 5500 km2, its greater part was contaminated with long-lived artificial radionuclides due to Chernobyl accident. Therefore, there risk contamination forage dairy Cs-137 and content grass would exceed acceptable limit. Long after accident measures remediate floodplains Iput River Novozybkovsky distri...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Polyploidy is common in the grasses and low-copy nuclear loci are needed to further our understanding of phylogenetic relationships. METHODS AND RESULTS Genetic and genomic resources were combined to identify loci known to influence plant and inflorescence architecture. Degenerate primers were designed and tested to amplify regions of 11 nuclear-encoded loci across the pa...

Grasses of the subfamily Pooideae, including important cereal crops and pasture grasses, are widespread in temperate zones. Seasonal regulation of developmental transitions coordinates the life cycles of Pooideae with the passing seasons so that flowering and seed production coincide with favorable conditions in spring. This review examines the molecular pathways that control the seasonal flowe...

Rangeland management plan is one of the major means of management and utilization of rangelands in Iran. The formulation of these plans for the rangeland users should be studied from the ecological and socio-economic points of view. One of the main envisaged activities in almost all the management plans is the grazing system. An experiment was used to study the effects of three deferred grazing...