Return to Volumes List

Tropical Grasslands
Vol. 26 1992

Contributed Articles March 1992 (No. 1)

   

The classification of a collection of buffel grasses and related species — B.C. PENGELLY, J.B. HACKER and D.A. EAGLES

1

Correlations among potential selection criteria for improving the feeding value of forage sorghums — C. MULCAHY, D.A. HEDGES, G.G. RAPP and J.L. WHEELER

7

Effects of trees on nutritional quality of understorey gramineous forage in tropical savanas — A. JOY BELSKY

12

Effect of plant age and harvest date in the dry season on yield and quality of Gliricidia sepium in southern Nigeria — J.O. ADEJUMO

21

Responses to fertiliser sulphur applied to old stands of leucaena — J.H. PRINSEN, J.D. MULLALY and G.B. ROBBINS

25

Effects of resistance in alyce clover (Alysicarpus spp.) on root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne spp.) populations — L.E. POWERS, R.A. DUNN, R. McSORLEY, D.D. BALTENSPERGER and D.S. WOFFORD

30

Comparative growth and development of Kenya clover (Trifolium semipilosum) and white clover (T. repens cv. Haifa): I. Seedling and plant growth — R.L. ISON, ANNE E.B. PARSON and B.C. JACOBS

40

Comparative growth and development of Kenya clover (Trifolium semipilosum) and white clover (T. repens cv. Haifa): II. Temperature and daylength effects on flowering — R.L. ISON and ANNE E.B. PARSON

51

Book Review

   

Sown pastures for the seasonally dry tropics

58

New Herbage Plant Cultivar

   

Medicago sativa cv. Quadrella

59

Trifolium subterraneum cv. Goulburn

60

Trifolium subterraneum cv. Denmark

63

Trifolium subterraneum cv. Leura

66

Trifolium subterraneum cv. Gosse

68

Clitorea ternatea cv. Milgarra

70

Letter to the Editor

74

Awards of the Tropical Grasslands Society 1991

76

Notes for Contributors

78

Letter from the Editor

81

Contributed Articles June 1992 (No. 2)

   

Above-ground production and response to defoliation on a native pasture in lowland Nepal — J.F. LEHMKUHL

82

The effect of drying on the intake and rate of digestion of the shrub legume Calliandra calothyrsus — B. PALMER and A.C. SCHLINK

89

Seed production of Stylosanthes hamata cv. Verano in the Douglas Daly district, Northern Territory, Australia — M.R. NORTON, N.L. THOMAS and P.C. SHOTTON

94

Resting from grazing to reverse changes in sown pasture composition: application of the 'state-and-transition' model — R.M. JONES

97

Temperature, daylength and the flowering and seed production of Sesbania sesban and S. cannabina — Y. SEDI and L.R. HUMPHREYS

100

Competition between Brachiara humidicola and Mimosa pigra — I.L. MILLER

111

Agronomic evaluation of Neonotonia wightii, Stylosanthes scabra and S. guianensis accessions in Ethiopia — A. LARBI, J. OCHANG, J. HANSON and J. LAZIER

115

Inoculation of Vigna parkeri with mycorrhizal fungi in an acid Florida spodosol — J.J. O'DONNELL, D.M. SYLVIA, W.D. PITMAN and J.E. RECHCIGL

120

The cobalt status of Queensland soils in relation to pasture growth and cobalt accumulation — P.A. ROSBROOK, C.J. ASHER and L.C. BELL

130

New Herbage Plant Cultivar

   

Lolium multiflorum cv. Aristocrat

137

Bothriochloa insculpta cv. Bisset

138

Lotus pedunculatus cv. Sharnae

140

Book Review

   

Tropical Grassy Weeds

142

Will it Rain? El Nino and the Southern Oscillation

142

Terminology for Grazing Lands and Grazings Animals

143

Contributed Articles September 1992 (No. 3)

   

Selection of morphological traits for characterisation of elephant grass accessions — F.A. TCACENCO and G.N. LANCE

145

Identification of selected cultivars and accessions of Stylosanthes by isozyme analysis — V. VITHANAGE and S. CHAKRABORTY

156

A sap test for the early diagnosis of toxic levels of nitrate in ryegrass — D.J. LYONS, G.M. HAWLEY and A.J. JEFFREY

165

Effect of tree clearing and seedbeds on the establishment, growth and population dynamics of siratro, green panic and signal grass oversown into a speargrass pasture in south-east Queensland — S.J. COOK and D. RATCLIFF

171

Tropical legume screening in the lowlands of Costa Rica — W.D. PITMAN, A.E. KRETSCHMER Jr, C.G. CHAMBLISS, M. LEIVA and G. GUEVARA

181

Tolerance of some subtropical pasture legumes to waterlogging — W. SHIFERAW, H.M. SHELTON and H.B. SO

187

Sustainable pasture systems in the humid tropics of Queensland — J.K. TEITZEL

196

Performance of yearling steers grazing bahia grass pastures with summer annual legumes or nitrogen fertiliser in subtropical Florida — W.D. PITMAN, K.M. PORTIER, C.G. CHAMBLISS and A.E. KRETSCHMER Jr

206

Book Review

   

Queensland's rainfall history

212

Contributed Articles December 1992 (No. 4)

   

Evaluating the nutritional characteristics of tropical pasture legumes — M.A. GILBERT, R.K. JONES and P.N. JONES

213

Variation in growth and N2 fixation within and among Centrosema spp. in response to phosphorus supply — G. CADISCH, ROSEMARY SYLVESTER-BRADLEY and J. NÖSBERGER

226

Rate of litter decomposition in a tropical grassland dominated by Cymbopogon caesius, in southern India — K. SENTHILKUMAR, K. UDAIYAN and S. MANIAN

235

Cattle in tropical woodlands obtain late-dry-season feed supplementation from the native tree Planchonia careya — J.B. LOWRY

243

Forage productivity of Gliricidia accessions on a tropical alfisol soil in Nigeria — J. COBBINA and A.N. ATTA-KRAH

248

Utilisation of kikuyu grass (Pennisetum clandestinum) pastures and dairy production in a high altitude region of Costa Rica — P. van der GRINTEN, M.T. BAAYEN, L. VILLAOBOS, R.H. DWINGER and L.'t MANNETJE

255

The value of round-leafed cassia (Cassia rotundifolia cv. Wynn) in a native pasture grazed with steers in south-east Queensland — I.J. PARTRIDGE and J.W. WRIGHT

263

New Herbage Plant Cultivar

   

Medicago sativa cv. Aquarius

270

Awards of the Tropical Grasslands Society 1992

272

Author Index

276


  Return to Volumes List