Farmers’ Perception and Evaluation of Brachiaria Grass (Brachiaria spp.) Genotypes for Smallholder Cereal-Livestock Production in East Africa [PDF]
Agriculture, 2020 Brachiaria (Urochloa) is a genus, common name brachiaria, of forage grasses that is increasingly transforming integrated crop-livestock production systems in East Africa. A study was undertaken to (i) assess smallholder farmers’ perception on benefits of
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Ciência Rural, 2006 Foi conduzido um experimento com o objetivo de avaliar o comportamento de bezerros em pastagens de Brachiaria brizantha e Brachiaria decumbens, no sistema de lotação contínua com taxa de lotação variável.
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Diversity of fungal endophytes associated with Rwandan Brachiaria ecotypes (Brachiaria spp) [PDF]
, 2020 Brachiaria species are important tropical forage grasses of East Africa origin. It is known to produce palatable and nutritious biomass for livestock, enhances nitrogen use efficiency, sequesters carbon and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Despite significant potential of this grass; no information available on endophytic fungal associated with ...
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Interrow intercropping of sorghum with brachiaria in off-season cultivation to production grains and forage [PDF]
Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2013 The intercropping has been shown as effective cultivation technique to rise the production from the simultaneous cultivation of different species in the same area.
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Steer performance on deferred pastures of Brachiaria brizantha and Brachiaria decumbens [PDF]
Ciência Rural, 2016 ABSTRACT: The objective of this study was to compare structural, morphological and bromatological characteristics of forage as well as performance of Caracu beef cattle (200 ± 9 kg of initial body weight) supplemented with a multi-mineral mixture (0.25% of body weight) on deferred pastures of Brachiaria brizantha 'Marandu' and Brachiaria decumbens ...
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Journal of Seed Science, 2021 : Analyses of germination of seeds under artificial stress conditions are tools for a better understanding of the survival and adaptation capacity of species under natural stress conditions.
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Urochloabrizantha and corn or sorghum silage integrated production: agronomic evaluation, fermentation losses, and aerobic stability of silage [PDF]
Ciência Rural, 2023 : The present study evaluated germination, production, and morphological composition of Urochloabrizantha intercropped with corn and sorghum; and silage fermentation losses and aerobic stability of intercrop silage using microbial inoculant.
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Genotypic Responses of Brachiaria Grass (Brachiaria spp.) Accessions to Drought Stress [PDF]
Journal of Agronomy, 2018 Background and O bjective: Brachiaria, a warm season C4 grass, is rapidly gaining popularity as fodder crop in Africa where it is also used as a component of a habitat management strategy for maize stem borers. However, increasing drought limits productivity of this grass species.
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Near infrared spectroscopy and seedling image analysis to evaluate the physiological potential of Urochloa decumbens (Stapf) R.D. Webster seeds [PDF]
Journal of Seed Science, 2023 : The demand for techniques that make it possible to assess the physiological potential of seeds quickly and assertively make near-infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIR) and seedling analysis using ILASTIK software promising tools.
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Urochloa in Tropical Agroecosystems
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 Increasing biodiversity is an important issue in more secure and sustainable agriculture. Diversified systems are more resilient to climate change, environmental stresses and enhance soil health, nutrient cycling and nutrient use efficiency.
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