Contributed Articles March 2007 (No. 1)

The changing face of forage systems for subtropical dairying in Australia — KEVIN F. LOWE

Evaluating temperate species for the subtropics. 1. Annual ryegrasses — K.F. LOWE, T.M. BOWDLER, N.D. CASEY, S.A. LOWE, J.A. WHITE and P.M. PEPPER

Seed production of two brachiaria hybrid cultivars in north-east Thailand. 1. Method and time of planting — M.D. HARE, P. TATSAPONG and K. SAIPRASET

Seed production of two brachiaria hybrid cultivars in north-east Thailand. 2. Closing date defoliation — M.D. HARE, P. TATSAPONG and K. SAIPRASET

The role of grasslands and forests as carbon stores — L.’t MANNETJE

Effects of ethephon, salicylic acid and cidef-4 on the yield and quality of guinea grass seed — T.B.M. JOAQUÍN, C. TREJO, A. HERNÁNDEZ-GARAY, P.J. PÉREZ, S DE G. GARCÍA and C.A.R. QUERO

Below-ground Interactions in Tropical Agroecosystems — Concepts and Models with Multiple Plant Components

Another dimension to grazing systems: Soil carbon — M.J. FISHER, S.P. BRAZ, R.S.M. DOS SANTOS, S. URQUIAGA, B.J.R. ALVES and R.M. BODDEY

Utilisation of ley legumes as livestock feed in Zimbabwe — C. MAPIYE, M. MWALE, J.F. MUPANGWA, P. H. MUGABE, X. POSHIWA and N. CHIKUMBA

Establishment of sown pastures in the hilly red soil region of the subtropics in southern China — OUYANG KEHUI, WANG KUN, LI DERONG, LI ZHENMING and LIU BING

Development and establishment of centipede grass (Eremochloa ophiuroides) in south-western Japan — M. HIRATA, Y. NAGAKURA, N. YUKI, K. ADACHI, R. FUJII, T. KOYAKUMARU, S. OGURA, H. MORITAKE, C. WATANABE and K. FUKUYAMA

Tuft, shoot and leaf dynamics in Miscanthus sinensis in a young tree plantation under cattle grazing — M. HIRATA, N. HASEGAWA, K. NOGAMI and T. SONODA

A Welcome from the President — G. LAMBERT

The Condamine Alliance and the Condamine Catchment — P. McCULLOUGH

The landscape and marginal cropping lands — inherent and induced — A. BIGGS

Why restore marginal cropland to permanent pasture? Land resource and environmental issues — D.M. SILBURN, J.B. ROBINSON and D.M. FREEBAIRN

The original native pasture ecosystems of the eastern and western Darling Downs — can they be restored? — R.G. SILCOCK and W.J. SCATTINI

Sown pasture grasses and legumes for marginal cropping lands in southern inland Queensland — D. LLOYD, B. JOHNSON and S. O’BRIEN

Production, economic and environmental benefits of leucaena pastures — M. SHELTON and S. DALZELL

Pasture establishment on old cropping country in southern Queensland — S. COOK

The realities of pasture establishment — D. ILLING

Influence of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on climate risk and native pastures in the northern Murray-Darling Basin — J.F. CLEWETT and N.M. CLARKSON

Pasture management — an extension view — G. LAMBERT

Pastures for the flood plains — N. OLM

Integrating grazing and forage systems on marginal cropping lands — T.J. HALL

Economics of pastures versus grain or forage crops — P. WYLIE

Condamine alliance: Improving water quality by planting permanent pastures on marginal cultivation land — D. TURNER and G. LAMBERT

Handling change in land management in the Condamine Alliance region — R. PRESTON, P. LAWSON, J. RESER and T. DARBAS

Genetic fingerprinting of natural kikuyu populations in Australia — T.A. HOLTON, S.J. SKABO, K.F. LOWE and K. SINCLAIR

Phenotypic variation in natural populations of kikuyu in Australia — K.F. LOWE, K. SINCLAIR, T.A. HOLTON and S.J. SKABO

A survey of graziers’ perceptions of long-term productivity of leucaena pastures in Queensland — A. RADRIZZANI, H.M. SHELTON, S.A. DALZELL and O. KRAVCHUK

Improving germination of tropical grasses with new seed-coating technology — L. DONG and I. KALMS

Understanding the mechanism behind invasion of African lovegrass — J. FIRN and Y. BUCKLEY

A contemporary assessment of land condition in the Northern Gulf region of Queensland — K.A. SHAW, J.W. ROLFE, B.H. ENGLISH and J.C. KERNOT

Stylosanthes species in north-east Thailand: dry matter yields and seed production — M.D. HARE, P. TATSAPONG, S. PHENGPHET and A. LUNPHA

Effect of defoliation interval and height on the growth and quality of Arachis pintoi cv. Amarillo — K. SINCLAIR, K.F. LOWE and K.G. PEMBLETON

Irradiance and defoliation effects in three species of the forage grass Brachiaria — ZDRAVKO BARUCH and ORLANDO GUENNI

Morpho-phenological variation in Lablab purpureus — S.U. EWANSIHA, U.F. CHIEZEY, S.A. TARAWALI and E.N.O. IWUAFOR

Addition of activated charcoal to soil after clearing Ageratina adenophora stimulates growth of forbs and grasses in China — YAO-HUA TIAN, YU-LONG FENG and CHAO LIUR

An in vitro evaluation of some drought-tolerant native range plants in terms of ruminal microbial nitrogen, microbial biomass and their fermentation characteristics utilising a gas-production technique — M.R. AL-MASRI

Partial substitution of Atriplex lentiformis for wheat straw in the diet of Damascus does — M.R. AL-MASRI, M. ZARKAWI and K. KHALIFAI