Effects of inclusion of purple prairie clover ( Vent.) with native cool-season grasses on fermentation and digestibility of mixed forages.

Background: Incorporation of legume species into native North American pastures is considered an effective method to increase native pasture productivity and improve the nutritive value of forage. This study evaluated the effects of inclusion of purple prairie clover (PPC, Vent.), a native legume forage, with native cool-season grasses on the fermentation and digestibility of mixed forages.

A Simple and Fast Procedure to Determine 3-Nitropropanoic Acid and 3-Nitropropanol in Freeze Dried Canadian Milkvetch (Astragalus canadensis).

Canadian milkvetch () is a North American plant species in the legume family and some of this plant is fatally poisonous to livestock. The poisoning is attributed to the natural occurrence of notrotoxins, i.e.

Grazing improves C and N cycling in the Northern Great Plains: a meta-analysis.

Grazing potentially alters grassland ecosystem carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) storage and cycles, however, the overall direction and magnitude of such alterations are poorly understood on the Northern Great Plains (NGP). By synthesizing data from multiple studies on grazed NGP ecosystems, we quantified the response of 30 variables to C and N pools and fluxes to grazing using a comprehensive meta-analysis method. Results showed that grazing enhanced soil C (5.

Plant assemblage composition and soil P concentration differentially affect communities of AM and total fungi in a semi-arid grassland.

Adding inorganic P- and N-fixing legumes to semi-arid grasslands can increase forage yield, but soil nutrient concentrations and plant cover may also interact to modify soil fungal populations, impacting short- and long-term forage production. We tested the effect of plant assemblage (seven native grasses, seven native grasses + the domesticated N-fixing legume Medicago sativa, seven native grasses + the native N-fixing legume Dalea purpurea or the introduced grass Bromus biebersteinii + M. sativa) and soil P concentration (addition of 0 or 200 P2O5 kg ha(-1) at sowing) on the diversity and community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and total fungi over two consecutive years, using 454-pyrosequencing of 18S rDNA and ITS amplicons.