Claim · model-written summary
Hay harvested at 10% flowering stage had the highest leaf proportion.
- Taxon
- Stylosanthes humilis (Kunth)
Stylosanthes humilise0 - Treatment
- 10% flowering stagee1
- Outcome
- leaf proportione1
- Direction
- higheste1
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“The objective was to determine the stage of Stylosanthes humilis (Kunth) should be harvested in order to maximize dry matter and provide higher-quality hay”
e1“Hay harvested at 10% flowering stage had the highest leaf proportion”
Title
Esubalew Shitaneh; Habtie Arega; Mesfin Dejene International Journal of Forest Animal and Fisheries Research 2025. doi:10.22161/ijfaf.9.1.2
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect The CP content varied significantly between harvest stages (p<0.01).
- Intervention effect Hay harvested at 10% flowering stage had a higher IVDMD value (66.9%).
- Association Plant height was negatively correlated with LSR, CP and ash.
- Association Plant height was negatively correlated with NDF, ADF and IVDMD.
- Association Plant height was positively and significantly correlated with DM% and dry matter yield (P<0.001).
- Association NDF was uncorrelated with LSR, dry matter yield and IVDMD.
- Association NDF was positively and significantly correlated with ADF and DM% (p<0.001).
- Association NDF was negatively connected with CP.
- Intervention effect Hay harvested before flowering had a higher value (20.9, 20.8 and 20.6%) for a variable the abstract does not name.
- Observation The evaluated morphological features and quality indicators had different interaction effects.
- Recommendation The 25% flowering stage was the best time to harvest Stylosanthes humilis hay.
- Intervention effect Harvesting at the 25% flowering stage gave a higher dry matter yield and better nutrient quality.