Livestock Feed and Forage Innovations Photo-Text Description
Advances in the implementation of Megathyrsus breeding program Selecting an appropriate apomictic tester: Multi environm...
The optimization of livestock systems in developing countries has been associated with the replacement of native pastures with exotic species from Africa and their genetic improvement. Megathyrsus maximus has high productive potential and has the capacity to contribute to climate change mitigation by means of biological carbon fixation and biologic...
Characterizing forage production, use and feed access in selected communities in Kenya and Uganda
Developing a tool for progeny tests based on digital images
Evaluation and validation of portable NIRS to estimate in situ nutritional quality of Megathyrsus maximus population in ...
In breeding program at Alliance Bioversity international & CIAT we evaluate continually Hybrids or determinate nutritional quality. Many populations are selected for major nutritional characteristics like contents of protein (CP), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), acid detergent fiber (ADF) and In vitro Digestibility (IVDM). The parameters relationate...
Evaluation and selection of forage materials water stress
Having few improved forage options puts the livestock sector at risk of low productivity in the event of extreme abiotic stress events ( eg , droughts, floods). Currently, the CIAT genebank (now Alianza Bioversity -International-CIAT) and ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) has the largest and most diverse collection of tropical forag...
Creating a NIRS (Near Infrared Spectroscopy) database for tropical forages
Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) is a non-destructive analytical technique that uses the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum to analyze the chemical composition of a material. There are already several open NIRS databases available for different types of materials, such as food, feed, and agricultural products. However...
Chăn-hênh: CGIAR initiative on Sustainable Animal Productivity
Chăn-hênh: Sáng kiến CGIAR về Năng suất Chăn nuôi Bền vững
Tropical forages identification tool: A new companion for tropical forages selection tool
There has been a recent explosion in the development of image recognition technology and its application to automated plant identification, so it is timely to consider its potential for the identification of tropical forages in the field. On many occasions, producers and researchers alike confuse forages with each other. This generates confusion, p...
