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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Caprinos e Ovinos.
Data corrente: | 04/02/2019
Data da última atualização: | 04/02/2019
Autoria: | RAI, K. N.; REDDY, B. V. S.; DAKHEEL, A.
Título: | Forage potential of sorghum and pearl millet adapted to dry lands.
Ano de publicação: | 2005
Fonte/Imprenta: | In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRYLANDS, 7., 2003, Tehran, Iran. Sustainable development and management of drylands in the twenty-first century; proceedings. Aleppo, Syria: ICARDA, c2005. p. 243-251.
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | Sorghum (Sorghum bie%r (L.) Moench) and pearl millet (Pennisetum glaueum (L) R. Br.) are major cereals adapted to and grown primarily for grain production in the semi-arid tropical regions of Asia and Africa. With increasing demand for livestock products and a realization of the impact of livestock in improving rural livelihood, the value of fodder (both green forage and dry stover) has considerably increased in recent years. Both are high water use efficient crops and belong to C4 species with high photosynthetic efficiency and dry matter accumulation rates, making them especially attractive for forage production. Both sorghum and pearl millet produce better quality forage with crude protein content in pearl millet being higher than in sorghum. The forage quality of both crops can be further improved by reducing the levels of anti-nutritional factors (nitrates in both crops, tannin and hydrocyanic acid in sorghum, and oxalic acid in pearl millet) through the integration of genetic and management options. Some of the leaf diseases (e.g., anthracnose and rust in sorghum and rust in pearl millet) can have serious effect both on forage yield and forage quality. Considering the relatively simpler inheritance, diverse resistance sources, and effective field screening techniques, good opportunities exist for enhancing forage yield and quality through genetic improvement for resistance to these traits. Sorghum has been found to be better adapted than maize to both acidic and saline soil conditions and pearl millet has been found to be even better than sorghum. These attributes provide opportunities to bring huge areas under rather toxic lands into cultivation for forage production
Thesagro: | Pennisetum Glaucum.
Thesaurus Nal: | Forage production; Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor.
Categoria do assunto: | F Plantas e Produtos de Origem Vegetal
Registro original: | Embrapa Caprinos e Ovinos (CNPC)
Exemplares: | CNPC - (38850-1) - ADD - PL - PP - 631.45 - B453s -  - DIS