Seasonal nutrition content changes of stockpiled and standing Leymus cinereus forage

摘要：

Great Basin wildrye ( Leymus cinereus Scribn.&Merr.), an indigenous, tall and robust grass species of the Intermountain Region of North America, has the potential to produce large amounts of forage, however, due to elevated meristematic growing points and a tendency to become coarse and unpalatable at maturity, it is often avoided or devalued as a forage resource.Stockpiled forages often retain higher nutritional quality than post‐senescent forage of the same species (Buckmaster 1992 ; Strohbehn et al.2004 ).Great Basin wildrye frequently occurs naturally in meadows, essentially as a monoculture, permitting the use of equipment for cutting and windrowing.This project evaluated the nutritional quality of Great Basin wildrye as both a stockpiled and a standing forage.

关键词： seasonal nutrition content stockpiled forage standing forage Leymus cinereus

作者: B.L.Perryman L.B.Bruce K.Conley L.Schmelzer T.Wuligi

作者单位: Department of Animal Biotechnology,University of Nevada-Reno,Mail Stop 202,Reno,Nevada 89557,USA.

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）