Tropical forage legumes : harnessing the potential of desmanthus and other genera for heavy clay soils / edited by John R. Lazier, Nazeer Ahmad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahmad, N. (Nazeer), 1932- editor.

Lazier, John R., 1941- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forage plants.

Legumes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (568 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxfordshire, England ; Boston, Massachusetts : CABI, [2016]

Summary:

This book explores the importance of heavy clay soils to agricultural productivity in the tropics and subtropics and the identification of adapted, productive forage legumes for this environment.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Five Desmanthus species

Dedication

List of Line Drawings of Species with Forage Potential

Foreword

The authors

Contributors to the research

Acknowledgements

1 Providing pasture and ley legumes for use on clay soils in tropical and subtropical environments

2 The collection and initial evaluation of a wide range of pasture legumes from Mexico, Belize and Guatemala: implications for genetic resource development for tropical countries

3 Developing and Utilizing Genetic Resource Collections: An Example From the Tropical Leguminous Genus Stylosanthes

4 Desmanthus, a tropical and subtropical forage legume: developing germplasm resources for more subtropical and high altitude environments

5 A Numerical Analysis of Variation Patterns in the Genus Desmanthus: An Exploratory Study

6 Searching for Pasture Legumes for Heavy Clay Soils in the Australian Dry Tropics and Subtropics: I. Initial Literature Reviews, Data Analysis and Choice of Material for Test

7 Searching for pasture legumes for heavy clay soils in the Australian dry tropics and subtropics: II. Ancillary floristic, climatic and edaphic studies

8 Searching for Pasture Legumes for Heavy Clay Soils in the Australian Dry Tropics and Subtropics: III. The Initial Evaluation of Introduced Material

9 Searching for pasture legumes for heavy clay soils in the Australian dry tropics and subtropics: IV. Evaluation in Western Queensland

10 Recent Development and Commercial Adoption of Legumes for Heavy Clay Soils in Queensland

11 Developing and commercializing new pasture legumes for clay soils in the semi-arid rangelands of northern Australia: the new Desmanthus cultivars JCU 1-5 and the Progardes story

12 The cattle industry of Belize: a brief history of research and development to the mid-1970s.

13 Botanical Composition and Nutritive Value of Selected Native Pastures in Belize

14 Single plant trials of potential forage legumes for Belizean pastures on clay soils of the upper Belize River and the Lowland Pine Ridge

15 Forage legume adaptation strip trials in Belize

16 Initial screening for persistence and productivity of 20 promising native and exotic pasture legume species in two productive contrasting forage grasses in Belize

17 Productivity of 16 forage legumes under cutting in Belize on contrasting soils: a high alluvial terrace and a lowland pine savanna I. Dry matter yields

18 Productivity of 16 forage legumes in mixed swards under cutting in Belize on contrasting soils: a high alluvial terrace and a lowland pine savanna II. Nutrient levels and feeding value

19 A summary of the results of the IDRC-UWI/Belize forage legume adaptation and productivity trials, 1973-1977

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781780648774

1780648774