The objective of this study was to evaluate the importance various yield and nutritional characteristics for differentiation forage cultivars using principal component analysis (PCA). Data were obtained from an experiment conducted with a complete randomized block design (RCBD) 6 replications. Eleven grasses species Urochloa brizantha, U. ruziziensis, Megathyrsus maximus, Cenchrus ciliaris, And...

Oat predominately cultivated as forage crop and is not explored for its value-added bioactive moieties. This study was aimed to characterize five selected oat (Avena sativa L.) cultivars with respect organic sugars, antioxidant activities, pesticide residues, mycotoxin phenolic acids measured HPLC. Five indigenous (Avon, PD2LV65, S2000, SGD2011, SGD81) were profiled seven (gallic acid, vanillic...

associated with the brown-midrib phenotype average ≈20% for grain, 10 to 17% for stover, and 16% for Brown-midrib genes increase digestibility due to reduced lignificafodder (Miller et al., 1983; Lee and Brewbaker, 1984). tion in sudangrass, Sorghum bicolor subsp. drummondii (Nees ex Some brown-midrib lines may have stover yields as high Steud.) de Wet & Harlan. Brown-midrib lines are known to ...

Forage yield, nutritive value, and stand persistence are key metrics in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) management. The combination of cultivar improvement, longer growing seasons the Midwest, trends shorter rotations offer opportunity to reevaluate effects increasing cutting frequency (CF) on these metrics. We evaluated forage milk production, eight entries with fall dormancy (FD) ranging from tw...

To evaluate the effect of nitrogen fertilizer amounts on grain yield of forage corn in 2012, a pilot was implemented in Islamic Azad University Agricultural Research Station, Isfahan, as a split plot in a randomized complete block design. Main plots consisted of four levels: control (no fertilization ) , 50 , 100 and 150 kg per ha nitrogen from urea source and subplots , including several varie...