Naturalized populations of buffelgrass (Cencchrus ciliaris L.) grow wild in some range areas and around farms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. However, no attempt was made to study forage yield potential of these populations for use in range improvement or as a forage crop with low water requirement. This study was conducted to evaluate 24 seed sources collected from different places in the Riya...

exiting diversity is the basis of selection in plant breeding programs. diversity in morphological traits is studied by different methods of multivariate analysis. this study was conducted to estimate the genetical diversity of new corn hybrids based on the morphological traits. in this study, 40 new grain and forage corn hybrids with five commercial varieties as control treatments were planted...

to investigate the effects of sowing date on yield and quality of six forage maize cultivars in rasht region, a field study was conducted in 2010. the experimental design was a randomized complete block using a factorial arrangement with three replications. treatments consisted of four levels of sowing date (22 may, 3, 15 and 25 june), and six maize cultivars (sc 260, dc 370, sc 500, sc 647, sc...

sainfoin (onobrychis sativa), a forage legume, is worth attention because of its production and superior quality among pasture and hay forage crops in iran. sainfoin forage yield may be reduced by different levels of salinity. increasing forage yield in saline environments through plant breeding could partially compensate for this shortcoming if sufficient genetic diversity and heritability be ...

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 ...