Turkey is in a very convenient position for animal husbandry terms of both natural resources and ecological conditions. Forage crops, which has important place agricultural activities, the insurance plant production. Sainfoin perennial forage legume species that grown northern temperate regions world from Mediterranean region Caucasus, to Central Asia. In this study genetic diversity 100 genoty...

Sainfoin (Onobrychis viciaefolia Scop.) is adapted to the calcareous soils of the southern Great Plains and can provide early season forage that does not induce bloating; however, little is known about performance by ruminants grazing sainfoin. Our objective was to determine the effect of plant growth stage and grazing pressures on potential animal production from sainfoin as predicted from ene...

The objective of this study was to determine the relationships between nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (P), acid detergent fiber (ADF) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) contents of sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa Lam.) pasture and canopy reflectance. Canopy reflectance measurements were made by using a portable spectroradiometer. An experiment was conducted in the Turkey in May and June in ...

In order to evaluate resistance of sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) powdery mildew, seeds 19 accessions were collected from different parts Iran and sown at 4 locations, i.e. Kheirabad, Khoramabad, Semirom Tabriz, in 2014. Accessions evaluated for mildew severity index (DSI), forage dry matter yield (DM), digestibility (DMD) crude protein (CP) water soluble carbohydrate (WSC) concentrations ove...