Perennial pastures for marginal farming country in southern Queensland. 2. Potential new grass cultivar evaluation [PDF]
Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales, 2015 Trials in the Condamine-Balonne basin, Australia, compared 11 promising perennial pasture grass accessions (4 Bothriochloa, 2 Cenchrus, 2 Urochloa and 1 each of Digitaria, Eragrostis and Panicum species) against the best similar commercial cultivars on ...
Richard G. Silcock +3 more
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Assessment of herbaceous vegetation species composition growing around Kleinkopje opencast coal mine, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa [PDF]
Scientific ReportsCoal mining involves the removal of natural vegetation, heavy excavation; combustion and ignition accompanied by a release of coal dust to the atmosphere that drastically reduce the ecosystem services.
M. Mangwane +6 more
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Traversing the effects of ploidy changes in different Eragrostis curvula genotypes through high-throughput RNA sequencing. [PDF]
Plant GenomeAbstract Polyploidization has played a key role in plant genome evolution. Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Ness, a perennial forage grass species of the Poaceae family, is an excellent model for investigating genome duplication due to its natural variation in ploidy levels.
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Total herbivore exclusion alters plant species dominance and trait expression in endangered grassy woodlands. [PDF]
EcologyAbstract Herbivores are important drivers of plant community composition and dominance in grassy ecosystems, yet few studies have attempted to understand how different types of herbivores impact plant dominance and function. This study examined the biomass of dominant grass species and other plant functional groups after 3 years of nested herbivore ...
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Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2023 Magnaporthe oryzae, a devastating pathogen of finger millet (Eleusine coracana), secretes effector molecules during infection to manipulate host immunity. This study determined the presence of avirulence effector genes PWL1 and PWL2 in 221 Eleusine blast
Hosea Isanda Masaki +12 more
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Plastic traits of an exotic grass contribute to its abundance but are not always favourable. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 In herbaceous ecosystems worldwide, biodiversity has been negatively impacted by changed grazing regimes and nutrient enrichment. Altered disturbance regimes are thought to favour invasive species that have a high phenotypic plasticity, although most ...
Jennifer Firn +2 more
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Germination Ecology of African Lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula) and Herbicide Options for Its Control
Agriculture, 2023 African lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula) is one of the invasive perennial grasses that continues to disturb natural ecosystems globally. Experiments were conducted in southeast Queensland, Australia, to evaluate the effects of temperature, salt stress ...
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Semiárida, 2021 Los pastizales de regiones áridas y semiáridas sufren degradación ecológica y limitaciones productivas. Una alternativa de manejo para revertir tal situación es la siembra de especies forrajeras megatérmicas.
Martin Ezequiel Gonzalez +2 more
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Agronomy, 2020 The establishment of complementary native grass species could be an ideal method of dealing with existing problems of veld degradation and inadequate forage quantity and quality of pastures. A greenhouse experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of
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A Review of Indigenous Food Crops in Africa and the Implications for more Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems [PDF]
, 2020 Indigenous and traditional foods crops (ITFCs) have multiple uses within society, and most notably have an important role to play in the attempt to diversify the food in order to enhance food and nutrition security.
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