Estilosantes Campo Grande: an economical and environmental success forage legume for the tropics

摘要：

Estilosantes Campo Grande (ECG) is a tropical forage legume cultivar released by Embrapa Beef Cattle in 2000.It is a seed mixture ( by weight) of breed lines of Stylosanthes cap itata (80％ ) and S.macrocephala (20％ ).It has become a successful case of tropical legume forage, being spread nowadays in 450 thousand hectares of sown pastures in Brazil alone, in mixture with grasses such as Brachiaria spp., Panicum maximum and A ndropogon gayanus.This area is expected to increase 50％ in 2008.It has good adaptation to low fertility sandy soils and it is persistent under grazing (FERNANDES et al.,2005).

关键词： stylosanthes Nitrogen fixation erosion control sustainability

作者: Celso Dornelas Fernandes Bela Grof Rosangela Maria Simeao Resende Jaqueline Rosemeire Verzignassi Cesar Heraclides Behling Miranda

作者单位: Researcher at Embrapa Beef Cattle;Professor,UNIDERP,Researcher of CNPq,P.O.Box 154,Campo Grande,MS,7 Amiga Court,Palmwoods,QL D,Austrália. Researcher at Embrapa Beef Cattle

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2008世界草地与草原大会

会议地点: 呼和浩特

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）