New forage species for integration of sheep in rubber plantations
The productivity and persistence of 91 accessions of grasses, legumes and broad-leaved weeds were evaluated under young rubber at the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia Experimental Station at Sungai Buloh near Kuala Lumpur. The species were chosen from world collections for their reported shade...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Journal of agricultural science 1997-05, Vol.128 (3), p.347-356 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The productivity and persistence of 91 accessions of grasses, legumes
and broad-leaved weeds were
evaluated under young rubber at the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia
Experimental Station at
Sungai Buloh near Kuala Lumpur. The species were chosen from world collections
for their reported
shade tolerance. Two small plot experiments were conducted from 1989 to 1990
and regular harvests
were used to assess yield and persistence. The soil at the site was acidic
(pH 4·7) and infertile, and light
transmission declined from 65 to 20% in Expt 1 and from 90 to 50% in Expt 2. Pattern and cluster analyses were used to allocate accessions to groups
with similar yield responses.
Grasses which demonstrated both high yield and persistence of yield were
Brachiaria decumbens
MARDI accession, B. humidicola cv. Tully and Panicum maximum
cvs Gatton, Riversdale and
Vencedor. High yielding and persistent legumes were Stylosanthes scabra
cv. Seca and S. guianensis
CIAT 184. Survival of species monitored one year after completion of the
experiment indicated the
good longer term persistence of grasses Stenotaphrum secundatum,
Panicum laxum, Paspalum
notatum, Paspalum wettsteinii, Brachiaria humidicola
and Panicum maximum cv. Vencedor, and
legumes Arachis repens and A. pintoi. |
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ISSN: | 0021-8596 1469-5146 |
DOI: | 10.1017/S0021859696004248 |