grass pea (lathyrus sativus l.) has a high potential for forage production inboth rangelands and cultivated rainfed areas of iran. it is well adapted to semi-arid areas ofwest and north of country where annual rainfall is 250–350 mm. to study the seed and drymatter (dm) yield and agronomic traits, six genotypes of lathyrus sativus l. and twogenotypes of lathyrus inconspicuous l. were provided b...

The effect of replacing wilted grass silage (GS) with pea-barley intercrop silage (PBS) on feed intake, diet digestibility and milk production was studied with 8 multiparous Ayrshire-cows in a replicated 4 × 4 Latin square experiment. Proportion of PBS was 0 (PBS0), 33 (PBS33), 67 (PBS67) or 100 (PBS100) % of silage dry matter (DM). The DM content was 559 and 255 g kg-1 for GS and PBS. Crude pr...

Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is relatively tolerant to several abiotic stresses such as salinity. Twenty-five grass genotypes provided by the Dryland Agricultural Research Institute, Maragheh, Iran, were exposed four salinity levels (0, 40, 80, 120 mM). Based on primary screen, 8 and 17 sensitive selected. Principal components analysis for showed that first explained approximately 71-80% of ...

A modified pesta granule was developed for Pseudomonas fluorescens BRG100, a bioherbicidal bacterium for grass weeds, green foxtail (Setaria viridis) and wild oat (Avena fatua). This study reports: i) the effect of formulation water activity (aw) on survival of P. fluorescens BRG100 and, ii) the effect of starch on disintegration and dispersal of a green fluorescent protein transformant of P. f...