The Role Of Centrosema, Desmodium, And Stylosanthes In Improving Tropical Pastures
The Role Of Centrosema, Desmodium, And Stylosanthes In Improving Tropical Pastures

Author: Robert L Burt

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1000305287

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This integrated collection describes the importance of forage legumes for pasture development and improvement in the tropics and subtropics. Leading agronomists review the magnitude of the need for pasture improvement; tropical and subtropical soil and climate environments; reports of the successful use of legumes in pasture development in a wet and a dry tropical environment; and the scope of the problem in terms of area to be developed and development logistics required. Three legume genera, Centrosema, Desmodium, and Stylosanthes, are discussed in detail--information is presented on taxonomy, adaptation, distribution, productivity, and usefulness--and considerable emphasis is placed on Rhizobium germplasm resources for these genera. A concluding section of technical essays addresses special considerations in using tropical legumes in pasture development and presents a coordinated multidisciplinary approach to legume exploration and evaluation.

Somaclonal Variation in Crop Improvement II
Somaclonal Variation in Crop Improvement II

Author: Y. P. S. Bajaj

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 3642610811

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In continuation of Somaclonal Variation and Crop Improvement I (1990), this volume is comprised of twenty-four chapters dealing with somaclonal variants showing resistance to salt/drought, herbicides, viruses, Alternaria, Fusarium, Glomerella, Verticillium, Phytophthora, fall armyworm, etc. in a number of plants of economic importance. It is divided into two sections: Section I. Somaclonal Variation in Agricultural Crops: wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, potato, tomato, Lotus, Stylosanthes, banana, strawberry, citrus, colt cherry. Section II. Somaclonal Variation in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Atropa, Carthamus, Hypericum, Lavatera, Nicotiana, Primula, Rauwolfia, Scilla, and Zinnia. This book will be of great assistance to research workers, teachers, and advanced students of plant pathology, tissue culture, pharmacy, horticulture, and especially plant breeding.

Centrosema
Centrosema

Author: Rainer Schultze-Kraft

Publisher: CIAT

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 9789589183120

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Handbook of Flowering
Handbook of Flowering

Author: Abraham H. Halevy

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1351080989

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These volumes are an exhaustive source of information on the control and regulation of flowering. They present data on the factors controlling flower induction and how they may be affected by climate and chemical treatments. For each plant, specific information is provided on all aspects of flower development, including sex expression, requirements for flowering initiation and development, photoperiod, light density, vernalization, and other temperature effects and interactions. Individual species are described from the standpoint of juvenility and maturation, morphology, induction and morphogenesis to anthesis. All information is presented alphabetically for easy reference

Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Sustainability of Tropical Agriculture
Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Sustainability of Tropical Agriculture

Author: African Association for Biological Nitrogen Fixation. Conference

Publisher: IITA

Published: 1992-10-27

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9780471935605

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Biological nitrogen fixation in tropical agrosystems: twenty years of biological nitrogen fixation research in Africa; Sustainable agriculture: definition and measurement; Biological nitrogen fixation systems in tropical ecosystems: an overview; A protocol for screening legumes as soil-improving crops; The sustenance of tropical agriculture with multipurpose azolla; Facteurs pedoclimatiques limitant la lixation biologique l'azole; Response of some tropical nitrogen-fixing woody legumes to drought and inoculation with mycorrhiza; Improvement to the Phaseolus/Rhizobium symbiosis, with particular reference to the Caribbean region; Effect of pest management systems on biological nitrogen fixation; Agronomic evaluation of a rock phosphate as a phosphorus source for Leucaena leucocephala grown on an utisol; Nodulation of soybean grown under field conditions and inoculated with Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains; Effect of fertilization and Rhizobium inoculation on the growth of Leucaena and Gliricidia on an alfisol in south-western Nigeria; Early growth and nodulation in Leucaena and Gliricidia and the effects or pruning on biomass productivity; Comparative stude on the growth and productivity of Sesbania and Leucaena in the Central Plateau region, Rwanda; Supernoculation and non-nodulation mutants of soybean; Genetically improved rhizobia and their use in agriculture; Sustainability of nitrogen-fixing cropping systems: Nodulation and nitrogen fixation and transfer in a cowpea/rice cropping system; The role of legumes in sustaiing soil productivity and controlling soil erosion; Fitting soil-improving legumes into inland valley rice-baes cropping systems in West Africa; Herbage yield and soil fertility restoration potential of some tropical forage legumes.

Tropical Forage Legumes
Tropical Forage Legumes

Author: John R Lazier

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2016-07-25

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 1780646283

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The development of legume use in agricultural production in the tropics lags far behind the temperate areas and extensive research over recent decades has aimed to rectify the lack of available leguminous fodder species available for heavy clay soils. This book draws together that research and explores the importance of heavy clay soils to agricultural productivity in the tropics and subtropics and the identification of adapted, productive forage legumes for these environments. Providing an invaluable example of how a global search for adapted and productive forage germplasm has been - and can be - undertaken, and allowing access to a significant body of knowledge that was acquired before the digitalization of reports, this book will be a key resource for new scientists and experienced researchers in the areas of agriculture and forage agronomy.

Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical Cropping Systems
Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical Cropping Systems

Author: K. E. Giller

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1845933044

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Nitrogen fixation by leguminous plants is especially important when farmers are trying to minimise fertilizer use for cost or environmental reasons. This second edition of the highly successful book, first published in 1991, contains thoroughly updated and revised material on the theory and practice of nitrogen fixation in tropical cropping systems.

Tropical Forage Plants
Tropical Forage Plants

Author: W.D. Pitman

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2000-11-28

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1420038788

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Tropical Forage Plants: Development and Use covers the research and resulting pasture development in the tropics and subtropics, which has undergone dramatic changes in the past few decades. Providing a broad, global perspective, it serves as a comprehensive resource covering a wide range of subjects pertaining to forage and animal production in th

Aspects of Tropical Mycology
Aspects of Tropical Mycology

Author: British Mycological Society. Symposium

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-11-25

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521450508

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Considers the role of fungi in the tropical ecosystem and their potential as a source of useful, novel compounds.