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Biblioteca(s): | INIA Tacuarembó.
Fecha corriente: | 17/09/2014
Fecha de la última actualización: | 26/11/2020
Autoria: | DO CANTO, J.; REYNO, R.; REAL, D.; REVELL, C.
Afiliación: | JAVIER DO CANTO FAGUNDEZ, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Uruguay; RAFAEL ALEJANDRO REYNO PODESTA, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Uruguay; DANIEL REAL FERREIRO, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Uruguay; Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia.
Título: | Seed softening patterns of forage legumes in a temperate/subtropical environment in Uruguay.
Año de publicación: | 2013
Fuente/Imprenta: | Chilean Journal of Agricultural Research, 2013, v. 73, no. 1, p. 41-47.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-58392013000100006
DOI: | 10.4067/S0718-58392013000100006
Idioma: | Inglés
Notas: | Hitory article: Received: 22 May 2012; Accepted: 15 November 2012. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The authors wish to acknowledge the technicians Ana Viana, Ruben Merola, and Mauro Zarza for their assistance in the field and laboratory phases. Funding was provided by the Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Uruguay.
Contenido: | Few studies have been conducted in annual and perennial forage legumes to investigate the development of hardseededness and the subsequent pattern of seed softening in temperate and subtropical regions of South America. Experiments were conducted during 2007 and 2008 in central Uruguay to follow the pattern of seed softening in 35 annual and perennial forage legumes, including three native species of Uruguay and five commercial cultivars. Newly ripened seeds of each plant material were placed in mesh packets on the soil surface in mid-summer. Samples were recovered monthly for germination tests and the proportion of residual hard seeds determined. The native species Adesmia bicolor (Poir.) DC., Adesmia securigerifolia Herter, and Ornithopus micranthus (Benth.) Arechav., together with Ornithopus pinnatus (Mill.) Druce cv. INIA Molles behaved similarly. They showed high levels of initial hard seed from 78% in A. bicolor to 99% in A. securigerifolia and O. pinnatus cv. INIA Molles in 2007; displayed pulses of seed softening, particularly in autumn, and retained moderate levels of residual hard seed for the development of a soil seed bank ranging from 15% in A. bicolor to 49% in O. micranthus. These appear to be desirable characteristics for persistence of forage legumes in subtropical grasslands, both for annual and perennial species. Trifolium repens L. and Lotus corniculatus L. produced few hard seeds, only 2% and 13% respectively were hard after 1-mo in the field and were completely soft by July placing extra reliance on their vegetative propagation for persistence. Materials of L. arenarius Brot. showed pronounced late autumn softening, while materials of L. ornithopodioides L. showed extremely high levels of hardseededness (between 96% and 100%) and no softening during the evaluation period, apart from two materials that were completely soft seeded. Mediterranean forage legumes should be properly evaluated in temperate and subtropical regions as their seed softening behavior is likely to be substantially modified in these summer moist environments.
Palabras-Clave: | ADESMIA; HARD SEEDS; LOTUS; ORNITHOPUS; TRIFOLIUM.
Thesagro: | ADESMIA; LOTUS; ORNITHOPUS; TRIFOLIUM; URUGUAY.
Categoría del tema: | A50 Investigación agraria
URL: | http://www.ainfo.inia.uy/digital/bitstream/item/7196/1/CDocuments-and-SettingsachiacchioEscritorioDO-CANTODO-CANTO.pdf
Registro original: | INIA Tacuarembó (TBO)
Ejemplares: | TBO - (100074-1) - PXI - AP - PP - PP/CHILEAN JOURNAL OF AG.RES./2013 -  -  - DIS