Dendrolobium spp . — a source of tropical multipurpose legumes
Drought‐tolerant legume shrubs can enhance the sustainability of smallholder production systems in the tropics by providing year‐round high‐quality feed and fuel wood, and services such as soil fertility conservation.The genus Dendrolobium hosts such potential multipurpose legumes but has so far been neglected by non‐botanical research.There are some 12 species, all perennial shrubs or small trees native to tropical Asia (Lock & Heald, 1994).CIAT holds a Dendrolobium collection of 70 accessions collected in the 1980s in tropical China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.It is indicated to conduct a first assessment of the potential of this collection, describe its genetic, agronomic and nutritive‐value diversity, and identify promising accessions.For this, molecular‐marker studies and germplasm description and evaluation are currently carried out with those Dendrolobium accessions which in 2006 had seed available.Here the first‐year results from a field experiment on forage yield and quality are presented.
Dendrolobium tropics shrub legumes DM production forage quality
R.Schultze-Kraft M.Peters L.H.Franco B.H incapié
Centro Internacionalde Agricultura Tropical(CIAT),A.A.6713,Cali,Colombia
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）