Phenological agronomic and forage quality diversity among germplasm accessions of the tropical legume shrub Cratylia argentea

Cratylia argentea (Desv.) O. Kuntze is a drought-tolerant tropical shrub legume that can help to ensure continuity of forage supply in smallholder systems either through direct grazing or as a cut-and-carry plant for fresh foliage or silage. A collection of 38 accessions was characterized agronomica...

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Autores principales: Andersson, Meike S., Peters, Michael, Schultze-Kraft, Rainer, Franco, LH, Lascano Aguilar, Carlos Eduardo
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43945
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author Andersson, Meike S.
Peters, Michael
Schultze-Kraft, Rainer
Franco, LH
Lascano Aguilar, Carlos Eduardo
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Franco, LH
Lascano Aguilar, Carlos Eduardo
Peters, Michael
Schultze-Kraft, Rainer
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Peters, Michael
Schultze-Kraft, Rainer
Franco, LH
Lascano Aguilar, Carlos Eduardo
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description Cratylia argentea (Desv.) O. Kuntze is a drought-tolerant tropical shrub legume that can help to ensure continuity of forage supply in smallholder systems either through direct grazing or as a cut-and-carry plant for fresh foliage or silage. A collection of 38 accessions was characterized agronomically and nutritionally. High diversity was detected between accessions. Time to flowering ranged from 217 329 days after transplanting seedlings to the field and from 129 202 days after cutting. Flowering is probably induced by reduction of day length. Seed production was high but variable. Dry matter production ranged from 190 382 g/plant in the rainy and from 124 262 g/plant in the dry season, content of in vitro digestible dry matter from 589 690 g/kg, crude protein content from 184 237 g/kg and fibre content from 403 528 g/kg (neutral detergent fibre, NDF), 240 335 g/kg (acid detergent fibre, ADF), and 9 13 g/kg (acid detergent fibre-bound nitrogen, N-ADF). Accessions CIAT 18674 and CIAT 22406 were identified as promising for further study. They were superior to the commercial cultivar in terms of dry matter (DM) production, particularly in the dry season. Further research is required to determine the prevailing reproduction strategy of C. argentea and to quantify outcrossing-rates. Multilocational trials with a selected set of accessions should be conducted under different environmental conditions.
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spelling CGSpace439452024-11-15T08:52:28Z Phenological agronomic and forage quality diversity among germplasm accessions of the tropical legume shrub Cratylia argentea Andersson, Meike S. Peters, Michael Schultze-Kraft, Rainer Franco, LH Lascano Aguilar, Carlos Eduardo feed crops cratylia germplasm collections evaluation phenology agronomic characters nutritive value colecciones de material genético evaluación fenología características agronómicas valor nutritivo Cratylia argentea (Desv.) O. Kuntze is a drought-tolerant tropical shrub legume that can help to ensure continuity of forage supply in smallholder systems either through direct grazing or as a cut-and-carry plant for fresh foliage or silage. A collection of 38 accessions was characterized agronomically and nutritionally. High diversity was detected between accessions. Time to flowering ranged from 217 329 days after transplanting seedlings to the field and from 129 202 days after cutting. Flowering is probably induced by reduction of day length. Seed production was high but variable. Dry matter production ranged from 190 382 g/plant in the rainy and from 124 262 g/plant in the dry season, content of in vitro digestible dry matter from 589 690 g/kg, crude protein content from 184 237 g/kg and fibre content from 403 528 g/kg (neutral detergent fibre, NDF), 240 335 g/kg (acid detergent fibre, ADF), and 9 13 g/kg (acid detergent fibre-bound nitrogen, N-ADF). Accessions CIAT 18674 and CIAT 22406 were identified as promising for further study. They were superior to the commercial cultivar in terms of dry matter (DM) production, particularly in the dry season. Further research is required to determine the prevailing reproduction strategy of C. argentea and to quantify outcrossing-rates. Multilocational trials with a selected set of accessions should be conducted under different environmental conditions. 2006-06 2014-10-02T08:32:59Z 2014-10-02T08:32:59Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43945 en Limited Access Cambridge University Press
spellingShingle feed crops
cratylia
germplasm collections
evaluation
phenology
agronomic characters
nutritive value
colecciones de material genético
evaluación
fenología
características agronómicas
valor nutritivo
Andersson, Meike S.
Peters, Michael
Schultze-Kraft, Rainer
Franco, LH
Lascano Aguilar, Carlos Eduardo
Phenological agronomic and forage quality diversity among germplasm accessions of the tropical legume shrub Cratylia argentea
title Phenological agronomic and forage quality diversity among germplasm accessions of the tropical legume shrub Cratylia argentea
title_full Phenological agronomic and forage quality diversity among germplasm accessions of the tropical legume shrub Cratylia argentea
title_fullStr Phenological agronomic and forage quality diversity among germplasm accessions of the tropical legume shrub Cratylia argentea
title_full_unstemmed Phenological agronomic and forage quality diversity among germplasm accessions of the tropical legume shrub Cratylia argentea
title_short Phenological agronomic and forage quality diversity among germplasm accessions of the tropical legume shrub Cratylia argentea
title_sort phenological agronomic and forage quality diversity among germplasm accessions of the tropical legume shrub cratylia argentea
topic feed crops
cratylia
germplasm collections
evaluation
phenology
agronomic characters
nutritive value
colecciones de material genético
evaluación
fenología
características agronómicas
valor nutritivo
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43945
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