Claim · model-written summary
Tetraploid swards had increased organic matter digestibility and crude protein relative to diploid swards.
- Taxon
- perennial ryegrass-white clover swardst0
- Treatment
- Tetraploid swardse0
- Outcome
- organic matter digestibility and crude proteine0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- diploid swardse0
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Verbatim
e0“Tetraploid swards had a lower tiller density, lower sward WC content and post-grazing sward height and increased organic matter digestibility and crude protein than diploid swards”
t0“perennial ryegrass-white clover swards”
Title
C. Guy; D. Hennessy; T. J. Gilliland; et al. The Journal of Agricultural Science 2018. doi:10.1017/s0021859618000199
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect White clover inclusion had a significant effect on herbage DM production, herbage growth rate and tiller density.
- Intervention effect White clover inclusion had a significant effect on organic matter digestibility, crude protein and biological N fixation.
- Intervention effect Tetraploid swards had lower tiller density, lower sward white clover content and lower post-grazing sward height than diploid swards.
- Intervention effect White clover inclusion improved herbage DM production and nutritive value across a full grazing season.
- Intervention effect Tetraploid and diploid swards produced similar herbage DM yields across the year.
- Intervention effect White clover in diploid-WC swards had narrower stolons than in tetraploid-WC swards.
- Intervention effect White clover in diploid-WC swards had longer stolons than in tetraploid-WC swards.
- Intervention effect White clover in diploid-WC swards had fewer branches than in tetraploid-WC swards.
- Intervention effect White clover in diploid-WC swards had more petioles than in tetraploid-WC swards.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that including white clover in grass-based systems is beneficial under high N fertilizer and high stocking rate.