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Tropical Grasslands
Vol. 20 1986

Contributed Articles March 1986 (No. 1)

   

Tropical Grassland Society Fellowships — J.S. Pulsford

1

Tropical Grassland Society Fellowships — R.E. Harrison

2

Stobbs Memorial Lecture: The role of improved pastures in commercial production in the tropics and sub-tropics — R.E. HARRISON

3

Production of tropical and subtropical grasses and legumes, with and without irrigation, in central western New South Wales — D.K. MULDOON

18

Rhizobium requirements for two accessions of Gliricidia maculata — R. AKKASAENG, P.C. WHITEMAN and R.A. DATE

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Diseases of Aeschynomene species — R.M. SONODA and J.M. LENNE

30

Technical Note: A genetic basis for male sterility in kikuyu grass — G.J. PIGGOT and H.M. MORGAN

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Technical Note: A method for enhancing establishment of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit in infertile acid soils — L.C. LESLEIGHTER and H.M. SHELTON

36

Technical Note: The potential for persistence of Safari Kenya white clover by seedling regeneration — H. PHILPOTTS

39

Technical Note: Occurrence and evaluation of damage caused by the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne javanica on Desmodium heterocarpon in the Llanos Orientales of Colombia — J.M. STANTON and R. HERNANDEZ MERE

44

New Pasture Release

   

Setaria sphacelata var. sericea cv. Solander

46

Contributed Articles June 1986 (No. 2)

   

Persistence of selected Stylosanthes accessions in peninsular Florida, U.S.A. — W.D. PITMAN, J.B. BROLMANN and A.E. KRETSCHMER Jr

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Formation of seed yield in Panicum maximum cv. Gatton — P.R.P. DE OLIVEIRA and L.R. HUMPHREYS

52

Breeding Centrosema pascuorum for nothern Australia — R.J. CLEMENTS, W.H. WINTER and C.S. THOMSON

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Evaluation of bred lines of Centrosema pascuorum in small plots in north-west Australia — T.G.H. STOCKWELL, R.J. CLEMENTS, G.J. CALDER and W.H. WINTER

65

Use of fire for spelling monsoon tallgrass pasture grazed by cattle — H.M. ANDREW

69

Potential of Albizia lebbeck (Mimosaceae) as a tropical fodder tree. A review of literature — J.H. PRINSEN

78

Proceedings:
Leucaena — a legume of promise — November 15, 1985

83

In Memorium — P.C. Whiteman, F.A.I.A.S.

94

Book Review

   

Forage legumes for energy-efficient animal production. Eds. R.F. BARNES, P.R. BALL, R.W. BROUGHAM, G.C. MARTEN and D.J. MINSON

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Contributed Articles September 1986 (No. 3)

   

Adoption of the shrub legume (Leucaena leucocephala) in central and southeast Queensland — L.C. LESLEIGHTER and H.M. SHELTON

97

Forage potential of some Centrosema species in the Llanos Orientales of Colombia — B. GROF

107

Effect of early sowing on establishment, growth pattern and rust infection of annual sowings of ryegrass (Lolium spp.) in sub-coastal southeast Queensland — K.F. LOWE, T.M. BOWDLER and J.C. MULDER

112

Selection of plant species by cattle grazing native monsoon tallgrass pasture at Katherine, N.T. — M.H. ANDREW

120

Effect of fertiliser and weed control on emergence and early growth of five leguminous fodder shrubs — BARBARA V. MAASDORP and R.C. GUTTERIDGE

127

Stimulation of growth and nitrogen uptake by shading a rundown green panic pasture on Brigalow clay soil — J.R. WILSON, V.R. CATCHPOOLE and K.L. WEIER

134

New Pasture Plant Release

   

Medicago truncatula var. truncatula (barrel medic) cv. Parabinga

143

Contributed Articles December 1986 (No. 4)

   

Influence of temperature on the digestibility and growth of Macroptilium atropurpureum and Panicum maximum var. trichoglume in sub-tropical and tropical Australia — J.R. WILSON, P.N. JONES, D.J. MINSON and Officers of N.S.W. Department of Agriculture, Qld Department of Primary Industries, N.T. Department of Primary Production and CSIRO Division of Tropical Crops and Pastures

145

Temperature constraints to sowing time of Leucaena in southeat Queensland — D.G. COOKSLEY

156

Animal production in central Queensland from the autumn-winter forage crops: Lablab, Molopo buffel grass and Zulu sorghum — T.W.G. GRAHAM, J.H. WILDEN, S.J. WOOD and G.W. BLIGHT

159

Effect of stocking rate and superphosphate level on an oversown fire climax grassland of mission grass (Pennisetum polystachyon) in Fiji. 1. Botanical composition of pasture — I.J. PARTRIDGE

166

Effect of stocking rate and superphosphate level on an oversown fire climax grassland of mission grass (Pennisetum polystachyon) in Fiji. 2. Animal production — I.J. PARTRIDGE

174

The effect of storage in cattle dung on viability of tropical pasture seeds — M. SIMANO NETO and R.M. JONES

180

Observations on the diet selected by Friesian cows grazing tropical grass and grass–legume pastures — R.T. COWAN, T.M. DAVIDSON and R.K. SHEPHARD

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