Economic losses associated with grass tetany either of death or poor growth performance of livestock are a growing concern. Breeding of high magnesium (high-Mg) cool-season forage grass (C3) has been a challenging pro...
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Economic losses associated with grass tetany either of death or poor growth performance of livestock are a growing concern. Breeding of high magnesium (high-Mg) cool-season forage grass (C3) has been a challenging process to minimize the hazards of grass tetany. For appraising the breeding of high Mg-containing cultivars in Japanese Andisol, agronomic properties and grass tetany risk of high-Mg cultivars were compared with commercial cultivars. The high-Mg cultivars of Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.), tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.), and orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) were “Magnet”, “HiMag” and “Mgwell”, respectively. The commercial cultivars were viz., Ace, Tachiwase, and Waseyutaka of Italian ryegrass, Hokuryo, Kentucky-31 (Ky-31), and Fawn of tall fescue, and Akimidori and Okamidori of orchardgrass, respectively. Grasses were grown in temperate Andisol under field conditions with standard management practices and were harvested four times during the year. The average plant heights of the high-Mg containing cultivars were lower than the commercial cultivars with the relative range of −7.4%, −3.7%, and −1.5% for Italian ryegrass, tall fescue, and orchard grass species, respectively. The seasonal yield of high-Mg cultivars was ranked as Magnet > HiMag > Mgwell. The Mgwell orchard grass had lower potassium (K) content compared with their respective commercial cultivars with a relative range of −2.2%. Across four harvests, a significantly higher calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) content, and lower grass tetany potential were recorded in high-Mg cultivars when compared to commercial cultivars, irrespective of species. Across four harvests, the lowest grass tetany index, [K/(Ca + Mg)] of 1.36 was recorded in Mgwell orchard grass. The high-Mg cultivars showed the lowest [K/(Ca + Mg)] across four harvests compared to commercial cultivars, promoting the effectiveness of breeding cool-season grass species to control
The membrane lipid peroxidation, antioxidant metabolites, as well as ultrastructure of chloroplasts of leaves were investigated in two coolseason turfgrass species, perennial ryegrass (heat sensitive)
The membrane lipid peroxidation, antioxidant metabolites, as well as ultrastructure of chloroplasts of leaves were investigated in two coolseason turfgrass species, perennial ryegrass (heat sensitive)
Heat is a major factor limiting growth of C grass *** CO may mitigate the adverse effects of heat stress or enhance heat *** objective of this study was to determine metabolic and proteomic changes associated with imp...
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Heat is a major factor limiting growth of C grass *** CO may mitigate the adverse effects of heat stress or enhance heat *** objective of this study was to determine metabolic and proteomic changes associated with improvement of heat tolerance by elevated atmospheric CO concentration in tall rescue(Festuca arundinacea),Plants (***) were exposed to ambient day/night temperature(25/20℃) or heat stress (35/30℃) and ambient CO concentration(400+10)μmol·mol or double ambient CO concentration(800±10)μmol·mol in growth *** CO significantly improved tall rescue tolerance to heat stress or mitigated the adverse effects of heat stress,as manifested by greater shoot growth rate and photosynthetic rate,and lower leaf electrolyte *** exposed to heat stress under elevated CO exhibited a significantly greater amount of several organic acids(shikimic acid,malonic acid,threonic acid,glyceric acid,galactaric acid,and citric acid),amino acids(serine,valine,and 5-oxoproline),and carbohydrates(sucrose and maltose) compared to heat-stressed plants at ambient *** improved heat tolerance by elevated CO was also associated with the increase in the abundance of proteins involved in photosynthetic light reactions(chlorophyll a-b binding protein ),electron transport carrier molecule(ferredoxin),and ATP generation enzyme(adolase),as well as higher carbon assimilation efficiency and carboxylation enzyme activities of the Calvin cycle(higher carbon:nitrogen ratio,maximal rate of photosynthetic electron transport,Rubisco activity and Rubisco activation).Elevated CO also induced the accumulation of proteins involved in antioxidant metabolism(ascorbate peroxidase and 2-Cys peroxiredoxin).The increased production or ma- intenance of metabolites and proteins with important biological functions such as those involved in photosynthesis,respiration,and protein metabolism could play a role in elevated CO-mitigation of heat stress damage.
The effects of four cool-season turfgrasses and four seeding rates of each species on winter -spring quality and subsequent transition of‘Lanyin Ⅲ’zoysiagrass(Zoysia japonica)sports turf were conducted in Guangzhou...
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The effects of four cool-season turfgrasses and four seeding rates of each species on winter -spring quality and subsequent transition of‘Lanyin Ⅲ’zoysiagrass(Zoysia japonica)sports turf were conducted in Guangzhou,*** results demonstrated that higher overseeding rates can provide greater winter-spring quality but do not enhance the transition to zoysiagrass over lower overseeding *** ryegrass(Lolium multiflorum)transited to zoysiagrass bet- ter than perennial ryegrass(Lolium perenne),but the overseeded winter-spring quality of an- nual ryegrass was *** ryegrass was too persistent to fully transit to zoysia- grass even under high summer *** blurgrass(Poa trivialis)appeared not suit- able for overseeding due to its weakness in competition and the difference in appearance com- pared with *** fescue(fescue arundinacea)was found to be the best species for winter overseeding on the zoysiagrass turf among the four cool-season turfgrasses studied be- cause of its moderate competition in spring and the similarity inappearance with zoysiagrass. After evaluation of‘Lanyin Ⅲ’zoysiagrass sports turf overseeded with tall fescue from winter to spring,it is suggested that winter overseeding rates of tall fescue should be between 20-30g m .
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