THE SIMULATION OF ANIMAL RETURNS IN GRASSLAND EXPERIMENTATION

An experiment was carried out on a grass/white-clover sward at North Wyke to evaluate the use of mixtures of inorganic and organic nutrient sources to simulate the nutrient effect of animal excreta, both with and without overall PK fertilizer. Grazing with sheep and the return of excreta from caged sheep both increased herbage yields, as did artificial return treatments. Artificial return treatments giving 75% of the nutrient level returned by excreta gave yields comparable with grazing. The effect of the simulated return treatments was not influenced by PK application. Grazing gave a very different botanical composition to that from the treatments in wbich natural or simulated excreta were returned to cut swards. Mixtures simulating excreta may replace the nutrient effect of the grazing animal, but not its physical effect, in some forms of grassland experimentation. They are not recommended for fertilizer trials.     

Experimental hybridization in certain diploid mexican solanum species

S. bulbocastanum is highly interfertile with S. cardiophyllum. Through the F₁ to F₅ little breakdown due to sterility or lack of plant vigour occurred. F₁ plants of a 5-species hybrid involving S. pinnatisectum, S. trifidum, S. jamesii, S. bulbocastanum, and S. cardiophyllum could also be intercrossed. One-way compatibility was frequently expressed in progenies of these interspecific crosses. It appears to be cytoplasmically controlled, although nuclear factors may be present which interact with cytoplasmic factors. The group of Mexican diploid potatoes represented by these species is potentially interbreeding and shows evidence of introgression throughout its range in central and Western Mexico.Contribution No. 169, Canada Department of Agriculture Research Station, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada     

Das Rechnungswesen der Bundesforstverwaltung der USA

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