Claim · model-written summary
The frequency of the undesirable grass Sporobolus pyramidalis increased at both sites in plots grazed during the wet season.
- Taxon
- legumest0
- Treatment
- plots grazed during the wet seasone0
- Interactor
- Sporobolus pyramidalis
Sporobolus indicus var. pyramidalise0weed - Outcome
- frequency of the undesirable grass Sporobolus pyramidalise0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
t0“Screening of legumes”
e0“at both sites the frequency of the undesirable grass Sporobolus pyramidalis increased in the plots grazed during the wet season”
Title
Screening of legumes for veld reinforcement peulgewastoets vir veld verbetering
J.N. Clatworthy Proceedings of the Annual Congresses of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa 1980. doi:10.1080/00725560.1980.9648895
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- Observation Legume seedling mortality was high on the sand site.
- Observation On sand, only Macroptilium atropurpureum and the five Stylosanthes lines had plant densities above 1 plant/m2 in the second season.
- Observation Legume establishment was better on the clay site.
- Observation On clay, all legumes except L. heterophylla had densities greater than 1 plant/m2.
- Observation Oxley fine-stem stylo was the only legume to persist and spread on the sand site.
- Observation On clay, a much wider range of legumes persisted.
- Intervention effect A hot fire in July 1976 adversely affected all the legumes on clay.
- Observation D. uncinatum, L. heterophylla and L. bainesii were the most persistent legumes on clay and spread widely.
- Intervention effect Grazing treatment did not greatly affect the persistence or spread of the legumes.
- Association On clay, wet-season grazing was associated with a reduction in the frequency of Hyparrhenia spp.