This chapter reviews the extensive literature on the toxicity and nutritional effects of secondary plant compounds (SPC) in forages. It discusses results from the research on two forages, Sesbania sesban and Trifolium pratense (red clover), as a way of illustrating the effects of SPC on forage ev...
Reed, J.D.
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Krueger, C.
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Rodríguez, G.
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Hanson, Jean
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[Secondary plant compounds and forage evaluation]
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Secondary plant compounds and forage evaluation
The importance of feed in increasing livestock productivity and benefits from livestock is stressed. Four major feed resources are identified: pastures, common property resources, forests, and fallow lands; planted forages; crop residues; and concentrate and agricultural by-products. There is a s...
Blümmel, Michael
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Hanson, Jean
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Fernández Rivera, S.
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Hansen, H.
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Bezkorowajnyj, P.G.
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[Strategy for ILRI research on feed resources]
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Strategy for ILRI research on feed resources
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
Seeds of legumes and grasses have become increasingly important as planting materials to establish forages for animal production in the tropics and subtropics. Availability of high-quality seeds of adapted and productive forage species is essential for successful pasture establishment. However, s...
Forages are usually associated with grasslands, but they also occur and are used widely on roadsides, in fallow areas, and as crop residues. In temperate areas livestock is grazed on domesticated forages. In the tropics livestock use native grasslands (Africa, Australia), naturalized grasslands (...