Seven perennial species of African origin - Brachiaria arrecta, B. brizantha, B. decumbens, B. dictyoneura, B. humidicola, B. mutica, and B. ruziziensis - have been used as fodder plants, particulary in tropical America. The history of the commercial cultivars is given, and their most important a...
Keller-Grein, Gerhard
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Maass, Brigitte L.
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Hanson, Jean
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[Natural variation in Brachiaria and existing germplasm collections]
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Natural variation in Brachiaria and existing germplasm collections
Ninety–eight accessions of Cynodon, belonging to 4 different species and including several hybrids were haracterised using a set of 23 agro–morphological characters. The collection included both collections from natural populations
and breeding lines, selected among siblings
of open–pollinated pl...
Wouw, M. van de
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Mohammed, J.
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Jorge, M.A.B.
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Hanson, Jean
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[Agro-morphological characterisation of a collection of Cynodon]
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Agro-morphological characterisation of a collection of Cynodon
A collection of 74 perennial Panicum accessions, belonging to 6 different species, maintained at the field genebank of the International Livestock Research Institute, was described using 49 agromorphological characters in a multivariate analysis.
Wouw, M. van de
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Jorge, M.A.B.
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Bierwirth, J.
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Hanson, Jean
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[Characterization of a collection of perennial Panicum species]
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Characterization of a collection of perennial Panicum species