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American Journal of Plant Sciences (AJPS) is an openly accessible journal published monthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of plant sciences. All manuscripts subm…
Peng Wang, Kousaku Souma, Hideki Okamoto, Satomi Kin, Akane Sugita, Akihiro Furudate, Chihiro Sato, Akio Nibe, Yimin Cai, Takayoshi Masuko
The objective of this study was to examine the effects of potassium fertilizer (standard (S) and high (H) levels) on water-soluble carbohydrate (WSC) content of timothy ( Phleum pratense L.), silage fermentation, nutritive values, and nutrient intake. The sil…
Cezar Wancura Barbieri, Fernando Luiz F. de Quadros, Felipe Jochims, Émerson Mendes Soares, Leandro Bittencourt de Oliveira, Régis Maximiliano R. Carvalho, Gabriela Machado Dutra, Felipe Xavier de Lima, Franciele Gusatto
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of two rest intervals on structural sward characteristics and productive performance of beef heifers reared on Campos grassland managed on rotational grazing. The treatments were two intervals between grazing of 375 and…
Susanne Thulin, Michael J. Hill, Alex Held, Simon Jones, Peter Woodgate
Hypersp ectral sensors provide the potential for direct estimation of pasture feed q uality attributes. However, remote sensing retrieval of digestibility and fibre (lignin and cellulose) content of vegetation has proven to be challenging since tissue optical…
Allan R. Stevens, Val Jo Anderson, Rachel Fugal
Squirreltail ( Elymus elymoides [Raf] Swezey) can grow in cheatgrass ( Bromus tectorum L.) stands, and has reduced the biomass production of cheatgrass in its immediate vicinity. A field experiment was conducted to determine: 1) if competition for nitrogen re…
Ellen S. Dierenfeld, Ben Lukuyu, David Nyagaka
Proximate nutrient composition (crude protein, non-fiber carbohydrates, crude fiber, and ash), fiber fractions (neutral detergent fiber (NDF), acid detergent fiber (ADF), lignin), and both macro (calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P), magnesium (Mg), potassium (K), so…
Amjad Ali, Muhammad Sharif, Fazli Wahid, Zengqiang Zhang, Syed Noor Muhammad Shah, Rafiullah  , Sajjad Zaheer, Farmanullah Khan, Fazlur Rehman
Field experiments were conducted to determine the effect of composts prepared from different organic materials with rock phosphate (RP) on yield and P uptake of berseem and their residual effect on maize crop (cv. Azam) during 2011-2012. Composts prepared fro…
Felipe Jochims, Cleber Cassol Pires, Malcolm J. Gibb, Eduardo Bohrer de Azevedo, Diego Bitencourt de David, Émerson Mendes Soares
The aim of this study was to compare the area production and grazing behavior of single- and twin-rearing ewes kept on a mixed Italian ryegrass/white clover pasture. The herbage allowance was maintained at 12 kg DM/100kg live weight during the experiment, by…
Laura Astigarraga, Ana Bianco, Ricardo Mello, Dana Montedónico
A brown midrib (BMR) sorghum pasture was compared with normal sorghum for its effects on performance of Holstein cows in midlactation in terms of milk production and composition at grazing over three periods (Period 1: 20/01 to 31/01, Period 2: 17/02 to 28/02…
Rozana Castro Perim, Kátia Aparecida de Pinho Costa, Patrícia Soares Epifanio, Wender Ferreira de Souza, Ricardo Francischini, Daniel Augusto Alves Teixeira, Walkíria Guimarães Carvalho, Divino Rosa dos Santos Jr.
The objectives of this study were to evaluate the fermentative and bromatological characteristics of Piata palisadegrass that was ensiled with energetic brans and to assess the costs of different additive levels. This experiment was conducted at the Goiano Fe…
Gean Alves Maia, Kátia Aparecida de Pinho Costa, Eduardo da Costa Severiano, Patrícia Soares Epifanio, José Flávio Neto, Matheus Gonçalves Ribeiro, Patrick Bezerra Fernandes, José Fausto Guimarães Silva, Wainer Gomes Gonçalves
This study evaluated the dry matter production and chemical composition of Brachiaria forage grasses in the offseason after corn harvest in integrated crop-livestock system. The experiment was conducted at the Federal Institute of Goiás, Rio Verde Campus, usi…
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American Journal of Plant Sciences (AJPS) is an openly accessible journal published monthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of plant sciences. All manuscripts subm… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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