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Zuri and Quênia had similar nutrient accumulation.
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e0“Both forage grasses (Zuri and Quênia guinea grasses) are suitable for integrated crop–livestock systems, as they showed similar biomass production and nutrient accumulation.”
Title
Bruno de Souza Marques; Kátia Aparecida de Pinho Costa; Hemython Luís Bandeira do Nascimento; et al. Plants 2024. doi:10.3390/plants13223250
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- Observation Quênia guinea grass had 86.5% desiccation injury at 21 days, 8.5% higher than Zuri.
- Observation The two guinea grasses averaged 7021.1 kg ha−1 biomass, 43.25% higher than maize.
- Mechanism Grass biomass decomposed faster because of a lower C:N ratio.
- Mechanism Faster decomposition resulted in greater nutrient release into soil.
- Observation Zuri and Quênia had similar biomass production.
- Intervention effect Soybean yield was not influenced by cropping system.
- Observation Grass biomass returned more fertilizer equivalents to soil.
- Recommendation The authors considered both forage grasses suitable for integrated crop-livestock systems.
- Recommendation Future work could consider reducing mineral fertilizer based on grass biomass nutrient returns.