There is an increase in awareness of the benefits of grass hay from an agronomic and nutritional perspective. The main cool season forage grass species adaptable to California are annual ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, perennial ryegrass, orchard grass and tall fescue. The main characteristics of these species along with attributes of different varieties are highlighted in this paper. The agronomic...

The objective of this project is to compare growth and survival rate in Chinese carps reared under traditional culture conditions versus those reared in ponds treated with slurry (anaerobic fermented of cow manure). This experiment was conducted using two treatments one treatment using slurry and the other using cow manure plus chemical fertilizer as the control with three replicates for each....

Savanna ecosystems are dominated by two distinct plant life forms, grasses and trees, but the interactions between them are poorly understood. Here, we quantified the effects of isolated savanna trees on grass biomass as a function of distance from the base of the tree and tree height, across a precipitation gradient in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Our results suggest that mean annua...

Grasses are traditionally considered as wind pollinated, however, field observations confirmed frequent insect visits to grass flowers, suggesting insect pollination. Fruit and seed predators inflict heavy losses to cereals and millets during their growth, maturation and storage. The actual factors guiding insects and predators to grass flowers, fruits and seeds are not clear. Here, we report a...

The ongoing GRASS GIS project is following the open source development model with fully accessible source code which is released under GNU General Public License and regular releases. The basic development is undertaken by the “GRASS Development Team”, special contributions are delivered by institutions or individual developers. If such contributions are interesting for a wider audience, they a...

Carcass and meat quality of Thai native cattle, fattened for 2 years on Guinea grass (Panicum maxima) and Guinea grass-legume (Stylosanthes guianensis) pastures, were investigated in twelve 3-years old males. Groups had similar carcass quality except for kidney fat percentage (higher in cattle of the grass-legume group). This group also had a lighter meat (Longissimus dorsi, Infraspinatus) than...

BACKGROUND The fast-dissolving grass allergy immunotherapy tablet (grass AIT), Grazax, has proven effective in grass pollen-induced rhinoconjunctivitis. OBJECTIVE To investigate the immunological and cutaneous changes induced after a short course with grass AIT. METHODS We performed a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial with 78 patients randomly assigned to receive either gras...

1. The effects of four diets on water intake, rumen fluid outflow-rate, rumen pH and mineral metabolism were studied in wether sheep. The diets were barley and hay, flaked maize and hay, dried grass and frozen grass. 2. Experimental periods were of 12 d duration, and plasma magnesium concentrations were lower at the end of treatment periods when the grass diets were given and were significantly...

Plants using the C3 and C4 photosynthetic pathways differ in carbon-isotope composition, and this difference offers a means to estimate the relative abundance of these two functional groups in the palaeorecord. We report here results of a study aiming to evaluate pollen dC (dCp) of Poaceae (the grass family) as a proxy indicator for palaeoecological studies. On average dCp differs by /13 betwee...