information on quality characteristics of forage species help the range managers to select a suitable grazing program that minimizes the damages to vegetation. water soluble carbohydrates (wsc) -the main photosynthetic products- are stored in various plant parts and are more likely to be consumed when plants require them. in order to investigate the changes of wsc in distinguishable organs in t...

Genomic research has and will continue to revolutionize plant biology. It is clear that the adoption of Arabidopsis as a model species has done much to speed the development of plant genomics and to hasten our increased understanding of basic plant biology. However, Arabidopsis is not an “omniscient” model because this plant does not encompass all of the diverse physiological, developmental, an...

A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article. Ecosystems are facing increasing climatic challenges (Hazeleger et al., 2015), including more frequent and severe floods (IPCC, 2018). Flood events compromise ecosystem functioning by reducing primary productivity (Reyer 2013), disrupting nitrogen (N) carbon (C) cycling (Sánchez-Rodríguez 2019) may inc...

The study integrated perennial forage phases (1−5 years) into annual wheat systems. In the publication it indicates that once a treatment was converted from to spring no longer fertilized. However, we have discovered each time planted starter fertilizer of 11−52−0 (NH4; P2O5) applied at 56 kg ha–1 equating 6.2 N and 29 P ha–1. addition, during seeding legume legume/grass mixture treatments, 11 ...

Genomic research has and will continue to revolutionize plant biology. It is clear that the adoption of Arabidopsis as a model species has done much to speed the development of plant genomics and to hasten our increased understanding of basic plant biology. However, Arabidopsis is not an “omniscient” model because this plant does not encompass all of the diverse physiological, developmental, an...

The digestibility of crude protein (CP) from tropical legumes in grass-legume mixed diets was studied based on literature data by regressing the digestible CP (digCP) proportion diet. In vivo studies reporting concentration and values ruminants fed with grasses no other feed, were selected for analysis (56 publications, 213 dietary treatments (150 legume forages, 63 grasses)). First, observatio...

The legume-rhizobia symbiosis is a classical mutualism where fixed carbon and nitrogen are exchanged between the species. Nonetheless, the plant carbon that fuels nitrogen (N(2)) fixation could be diverted to rhizobial reproduction by 'cheaters'--rhizobial strains that fix less N(2) but potentially gain the benefit of fixation by other rhizobia. Host sanctions can decrease the relative fitness ...