Sward structure affects herbage growth, pasture species dynamics, and herbage utilization. Defoliation management has a major impact on sward structure. In particular, tiller size-tiller density compensations allow for the maintenance of herbage growth. Tiller size and tiller density are determined by several major morphogenetical components. Defoliation affects these morphogenetical components...

In this paper we steer wheeled nonholonomic systems that can be represented in a so called chained form Su cient conditions for converting a multiple input system with nonholonomic velocity constraints into a multiple chain single generator chained form via state feedback and a coordinate transformation are presented along with sinusoidal and polynomial control algorithms to steer such systems ...

Maximum tiller number and productive tiller number are important traits for wheat grain yield, but research involving the temporal expression of tiller number at different quantitative trait loci (QTL) levels is limited. In the present study, a population set of 371 recombined inbred lines derived from a cross between Chuan-Nong18 and T1208 was used to construct a high-density genetic map using...

We characterized a rice introgression line, YTH34, harboring a chromosome segment from a New Plant Type (NPT) cultivar, IR65600-87-2-2-3, in the genetic background of an Indica Group elite rice cultivar, IR 64, under upland and irrigated lowland conditions in Japan. The number of panicles (as an indicator of tiller number) and number of spikelets per panicle of YTH34 were lower than those of IR...

Cereals and grasses adapt their structural development to environmental conditions and the resources available. The primary adaptive response is a variable degree of branching, called tillering in cereals. Especially for heterogeneous plant configurations the degree of tillering varies per plant. Functional-structural plant modeling (FSPM) is a modeling approach allowing simulation of the archi...

Characterization and Genetic Analysis of a Very High Tillering and Dwarf Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Mutant. (August 2008) Dhananjay Mani, B.Sc. (Hons)., Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India Co-Chairs of Advisory Committee: Dr. Rodante E. Tabien Dr. Scott A. Finlayson This study focused on characterizing and determining the inheritance pattern of very high tillering and dwarf traits of a ...

This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of cutting intervals on dry matter (DM) yield, yield components and nutrient contents four varieties Pennisetum purpureum. Varieties experimented include: Local green, purple, S13 S15. These were planted in a randomized complete block design with three replicates. All P. purpureum cut at 4, 8 12 weeks after cutback (WAC) represent first, sec...

Tiller number is one of the key factors that influences rice plant type and yield components. In this study, an EMS-induced rice tiller suppression mutant ts1 was characterized. Morphological and histological observations revealed that, in the ts1 plants, the tiller buds were abnormally formed and therefore cannot outgrow into tillers. With an F2 population derived from a cross between ts1 and ...