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Pak. J. Bot., 49(1): 115-118, 2017. |
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Enhancement of Biomass production of birdsfoot trefoil, sainfoin and subterranean clover BY mixed cropping with perennial ryegrass
Viliana Vasileva1, TOTKA MITOVA2 and Mohammad Athar3
1Institute of Forage Crops, 89 “General Vladimir Vazov” Str., 5800 Pleven, Bulgaria 2Soil Science, Agrotechnology and Plant Protection Institute "N. Poushkarov", 7, Shousse Bankya, Str., Sofia 1080, Bulgaria 3California Department of Food and Agriculture, 3288 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832, USA
Abstract The productivity of three leguminous crops birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.), sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia Scop.) and subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.) was evaluated in green house grown alone or mixed with Lolium perenne L. perennial ryegrass in 2013 and repeated in 2014. Each leguminous crops were grown alone (100%) or mixed with ryegrass at (50:50). Birdsfoot trefoil or sainfoin was also grown with subterranean clover along with perennial ryegrass grass (33:33:33). Higher productivity was found with the treatments of mixtures, i.e., for dry aboveground biomass, by 20.4%, and for dry root biomass, by 25.4%, respectively. More stable productivity of plant biomass was obtained in mixtures.
Key words: Subterranean clover, Mixtures, Dry biomass, Root biomass, Sustainable yield index.
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