Starch is the most widespread and abundant storage carbohydrate in crops and its production is critical to both crop yield and quality. In regard to the starch content in the seeds of crop plants, there is a distinct difference between grasses (Poaceae) and dicots. However, few studies have described the evolutionary pattern of genes in the starch biosynthetic pathway in these two groups of pla...

One of the major limiting factors livestock production in Ethiopia is very low quantity and quality feeds supplied country. This calls for seeking forages that complement poor Hence, target this article was to compare three types grass agronomic performance, yield, chemical composition under different agroecologies harvesting dates (60, 90, 120 days). The field experiment carried out selected d...

This article focus on quality improvement in forage crops, specifically grasses, cereals, and legumes. As milk many other by-products obtained from dairy farms, poultry, etc are getting into demand, high-quality for livestock production is well recognized, efforts to improve can have significant economic environmental benefits. And an overview of current strategies improvement, including breedi...

Integrating farmyard manure (FYM) and legume intercropping improves soil chemical microbial properties, thereby increasing forage productivity nutritional value. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how fertilizer treatments affected the composition, in vitro gas production organic matter digestibility (IVOMD), volatile fatty acid (VFA) Napier desho grasses upper Blue Nile basin Ethiopia. ...

A major part of the daily caloric intake of human societies around the world is derived from a diverse range of foods prepared from members of the grass family, including wheat (Triticum aestivum), rice (Oryza sativa), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), the millets (Panicum miliaceum and Pennisetum americanum), barley (Hordeum vulgare), and sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum). Grasses cover perhaps 20% ...

Mycotoxin-producing Fusarium graminearum and related species cause Fusarium head blight on cultivated grasses, such as wheat and barley. However, these Fusarium species may have had a longer evolutionary history with North American grasses than with cultivated crops and may interact with the ancestral hosts in ways which are biochemically distinct. We assayed 25 species of asymptomatic native g...

Cool-season (northern) and warm-season (southern) grasses are grown in Arkansas. Cool-season grasses grow best in the spring and fall and less actively in the summer. They stay reasonably green in the winter. Tall fescue (Festuca arundi­ nacea) is the most commonly grown cool-season grass in Arkansas. Warmseason grasses are slow to green up in the spring, grow best in the summer and go dormant ...

The greenkeeper is fortunate in that he is not unduly required to pinch pennies when it comes to selecting and using effective control measures. Furthermore, he is fortunate in having available reasonably satisfactory control measures for most of the insect and rodent pests that are likely to infest or seriously damage turf grasses. Unfortunately, however, prophylactic or preventive measures ar...

Fire disturbance is considered a major factor in the promotion of non-native plant species. Non-native grasses are adapted to fire and can alter environmental conditions and reduce resource availability in native coastal sage scrub and chaparral communities of southern California. In these communities persistence of non-native grasses following fire can inhibit establishment and growth of woody...