The present investigation was conducted to assess the magnitude of heterosis rabi sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) developed by crossing four lines and twelve testers (in a line × tester design) produce 48 F1 cross combinations at Sorghum Improvement Project, MPKV., Rahuri, Maharashtra. To identify high-yielding Rabi hybrids, promising hybrids were sorted out based on positive significant ...

Eighty-five sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) entries including 13 restorer-lines (lines), 5 maintainer-lines (testers), 65 F1 hybrids, and two controls, were grown at Muzarabani, Zimbabwe during the rainy seasons of 1986/87 and 1987/88 to study the combining ability and heterosis for diastatic activity. Grain samples were evaluated for diastatic activity, expressed in Sorghum Diastatic Uni...

Seventeen warm season annual forage options were evaluated as livestock feed to be grazed, hayed, ensiled, or left a cover crop. Treatments planted in mid-May and terminated late September with one harvest for silage, two hay cuttings, three grazing rotations. One additional treatment was unharvested serve Biomass production cost produce final outputs determined. Even restricted rainfall during...

Integrating cover crops into crop rotation could provide options for herbicide-resistant weed control in farming systems. To evaluate the potential effectiveness of spring-planted oats (Avena sativa L.) on suppression, productivity, and feed quality annual forage as sole intercrops order to determine best agroecological technique, two-year experiments were laid out under arid conditions Akmolin...

Dietary intake affects the structure and function of microbes in host intestine. However, the succession of gut microbiota in response to changes in macronutrient levels during a long period of time remains insufficiently studied. Here, we determined the succession and metabolic products of intestinal microbiota in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) undergoing an abrupt and extreme diet chan...

Developing methods to provide high quality forage through most of the year is important for cattle operations. The purpose this study was determine management options offset summer “slump” with fescue. Four grass pasture treatments (10 pastures total; 4 acres each) were used in a completely randomized design and stocked growing heifers (n = 49; initial wt 461 ± 65 lb). Pasture consisted novel f...

The present study was aimed at assessing the ingestive behavior of ¾ Zebu × Holstein heifers confined to different levels of substitution of sorghum silage by marandu grass silage. Twenty heifers were used with initial average weight of 346.25 kg, divided into completely randomized experimental design with 5 repetitions and the following treatments: treatment 1) roughage fraction of the diet co...