3.5 ha of sweet potato were used to feed 30 crossbred Brahman bulls with an average weight of 184 kg and approximately one year old in an experiment to study the use of sweet potato in beef production. The five treatments were allocated to the experimental units in an unrestricted randomized block design. Treatments contained 0:100, 25:75, 75:25, 50:50 ant 100:0 ratios of tubers to sweet potato...

This study was carried out to study the possibility of salt tolerance induction in two cultivars of sorghum by exogenous application of different levels (0, 50 mM and 100 mM) of proline. Salt treatments (100 mM) adversely affected the germination percentage, growth and chlorophyll contents of both cultivars. However, applications of proline alleviated the adverse effects of salt stress. However...

increasing attention has recently been given to sweet sorghum as a renewable raw material for ethanol production, mainly because its cultivation can be fully mechanized. however, the intensive use of agricultural machinery causes soil structural degradation, especially when performed under inadequate conditions of soil moisture. the aims of this study were to evaluate the physical quality of a ...

For the long-term sustainability of the dairy industry in the Northeastern USA, manure nutrient application rates should not exceed crop nutrient removal once aboveoptimum soil fertility levels are reached. Dairy producers have shown a growing interest in brown midrib (BMR) forage sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench.) · sudangrass (Sorghum sudanense Piper) hybrids (S · S) as a more environment...

Lignin is an essential structural component of all land plants. It fills spaces in the cell wall between cellulose, hemicellulose, and pectin. Lignin provides the strength to plants from giant Sequoia trees to alfalfa growing in hay fields. A good analogy is that lignin is like the steel reinforcing rods in concrete. Life on earth would not be possible without lignin to allow plants to grow upr...

The current challenges in developing a cost-effective bioethanol industry include the production of not only high-volume, low cost biofuels but also high-value products with minimal downstream waste. The up-grading of side-stream lignins from bioethanol production plants to novel high-value products will improve the profitability of the bioethanol industry; to do that, a precise understanding o...

cultivars, net return is maximized when grazing is terminated at first hollow stem—the stage at which hollow Although grazing of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a stem can first be identified above the crown (Redmon common practice in the southern Great Plains, little is known about the efficacy of wheat as a dual-purpose crop in the Nebraska Panhanet al., 1996). However, beyond an optim...

In Burkina Faso, availability of quality feed is the major constraint on livestock productivity. Adoption improved cereal cultivars among farmers could enhance fodder supply. This study assessed potential for to provide food and feed. The sites were located in Köppen climate Zone B (Katchari Saria) A (Farakoba) Faso (Beck et al., 2018). Five pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.], nine s...

Plant photosynthesis and photosystem II (PSII) are susceptible to high temperature. However, photosynthetic electron transport process under heat stress remains unclear. To reveal this issue, chlorophyll a fluorescence and modulated 820 nm reflection were simultaneously detected in sweet sorghum. At 43°C, J step in the chlorophyll a fluorescence transient was significantly elevated, suggesting ...