Forage grasses in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Native and exotic warm-season grasses, including corn and sorghum, were evaluated in field trials as crops for fresh forage and silage. The evaluation includes an estimate of mode of spread and ease of establishment, reproductive capacity, rapidity of ground cover and recovery rate, regrowth capacit...
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Instituto Interamericano de Ciencias Agrícolas (IICA)
2025
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| author | Oakes, A.J. |
| author_browse | Oakes, A.J. |
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| description | Native and exotic warm-season grasses, including corn and sorghum, were evaluated in field trials as crops for fresh forage and silage. The evaluation includes an estimate of mode of spread and ease of establishment, reproductive capacity, rapidity of ground cover and recovery rate, regrowth capacity, competitive ability, stand maintenance, yield, and drought and pest tolerance.
The results of these trials indicate that the principal forages for the Virgin Islands are Panicum maximum, Pennisetum purpureum, Saccharum sinense, Sorghum sudanense, and Tripsacum laxum. Forages of secondary importance include Sorghum bicolor and Zea mays. |
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| institution | Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spelling | RepoCATIE133962025-07-29T23:16:14Z Forage grasses in the U.S. Virgin Islands Oakes, A.J. Forraje||forage||forragem||fourrage Graminea||grasses||gramínea||graminée Reproducción asexual||asexual reproduction||reprodução assexuada||reproduction asexuée Panicum maximum||Panicum maximum||Panicum maximum||Panicum maximum Pennisetum purpureum||Pennisetum purpureum||Pennisetum purpureum||Pennisetum purpureum Saccharum sinense||Saccharum sinense||Saccharum sinense||Saccharum sinense Sorghum||Sorghum (Poaceae)||Sorghum||Sorghum Tripsacum laxum||Tripsacum laxum||Tripsacum laxum||Tripsacum laxum Planta forrajera||feed crops||planta forrageira||plante fourragère Estados Unidos de América||United States of America||EUA||États-Unis d'Amérique Sede Central Native and exotic warm-season grasses, including corn and sorghum, were evaluated in field trials as crops for fresh forage and silage. The evaluation includes an estimate of mode of spread and ease of establishment, reproductive capacity, rapidity of ground cover and recovery rate, regrowth capacity, competitive ability, stand maintenance, yield, and drought and pest tolerance. The results of these trials indicate that the principal forages for the Virgin Islands are Panicum maximum, Pennisetum purpureum, Saccharum sinense, Sorghum sudanense, and Tripsacum laxum. Forages of secondary importance include Sorghum bicolor and Zea mays. 2025-07-28T16:07:21Z 2025-07-28T16:07:21Z 1969-10-01 Artículo https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/13396 openAccess en Turrialba Vol. 19, no. 4 8 application/pdf Instituto Interamericano de Ciencias Agrícolas (IICA) |
| spellingShingle | Forraje||forage||forragem||fourrage Graminea||grasses||gramínea||graminée Reproducción asexual||asexual reproduction||reprodução assexuada||reproduction asexuée Panicum maximum||Panicum maximum||Panicum maximum||Panicum maximum Pennisetum purpureum||Pennisetum purpureum||Pennisetum purpureum||Pennisetum purpureum Saccharum sinense||Saccharum sinense||Saccharum sinense||Saccharum sinense Sorghum||Sorghum (Poaceae)||Sorghum||Sorghum Tripsacum laxum||Tripsacum laxum||Tripsacum laxum||Tripsacum laxum Planta forrajera||feed crops||planta forrageira||plante fourragère Estados Unidos de América||United States of America||EUA||États-Unis d'Amérique Sede Central Oakes, A.J. Forage grasses in the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| title | Forage grasses in the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| title_full | Forage grasses in the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| title_fullStr | Forage grasses in the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| title_full_unstemmed | Forage grasses in the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| title_short | Forage grasses in the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| title_sort | forage grasses in the u s virgin islands |
| topic | Forraje||forage||forragem||fourrage Graminea||grasses||gramínea||graminée Reproducción asexual||asexual reproduction||reprodução assexuada||reproduction asexuée Panicum maximum||Panicum maximum||Panicum maximum||Panicum maximum Pennisetum purpureum||Pennisetum purpureum||Pennisetum purpureum||Pennisetum purpureum Saccharum sinense||Saccharum sinense||Saccharum sinense||Saccharum sinense Sorghum||Sorghum (Poaceae)||Sorghum||Sorghum Tripsacum laxum||Tripsacum laxum||Tripsacum laxum||Tripsacum laxum Planta forrajera||feed crops||planta forrageira||plante fourragère Estados Unidos de América||United States of America||EUA||États-Unis d'Amérique Sede Central |
| url | https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/13396 |
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