Effects of two water regimes on morphological traits, nutritive value and physiology of three Bituminaria bituminosa varieties from the Canary Islands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Fernández‐Habas ◽  
Maria Teresa Hidalgo‐Fernández ◽  
José Ramón Leal‐Murillo ◽  
Pilar Méndez ◽  
José L Quero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Morphological Traits ◽  
Nutritive Value ◽  
Water Regimes ◽  
Bituminaria Bituminosa

Nutritive value of forage shrubs: Bituminaria bituminosa, Rumex lunaria, Acacia salicina, Cassia sturtii and Adenocorpus foliosus

2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.R. Ventura ◽  
J.I.R. Castañón ◽  
M.C. Pieltain ◽  
M.P. Flores
Keyword(s):  
Nutritive Value ◽  
Bituminaria Bituminosa

Evaluation of tedera [(Bituminaria bituminosa (L.) C.H. Stirton var. albomarginata]) as a forage alternative for sheep in temperate southern Australia

2012 ◽  
Vol 63 (12) ◽  
pp. 1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Raeside ◽  
Z. N. Nie ◽  
S. G. Clark ◽  
D. L. Partington ◽  
R. Behrendt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medicago Sativa ◽  
Nutritive Value ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Early Winter ◽  
Forage Production ◽  
High Rainfall ◽  
Forage Species ◽  
Bituminaria Bituminosa ◽  
Medicago Sativa L ◽  
Perennial Legume

Bituminaria bituminosa (L.) C.H. Stirton, commonly known as tedera, is a perennial legume of interest in Australia due to its adaptation to Mediterranean environments. Field experiments were conducted at two sites in Victoria, Australia, a high rainfall site at Hamilton and a low rainfall site at Bealiba, to evaluate tedera var. albomarginata lines against other forage species. At Hamilton, tedera achieved similar seedling densities to lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) following sowings in late spring 2009 and early winter 2010 (30–60 seedlings/m2). Forage production from the spring-sown tedera was between 1.0 and 2.3 t DM/ha at harvests in March and May 2010, but from May onwards the species failed to remain productive and its content in the swards decreased to become <10%. Forage production from all early winter-sown tedera swards was low (<0.5 t DM/ha). At Bealiba, some of the tedera lines outyielded lucerne. The tedera at Bealiba had a vigour rating of 8.3, on a scale of 1–10, in the summer of 2008–09, after surviving three summers. The tedera lines evaluated are unlikely to persist in cold wet winter environments but in drier zones tedera may persist and offer good DM yields of high nutritive value.

AVENA CANARIENSIS: MORPHOLOGICAL AND ELECTROPHORETIC POLYMORPHISM AND RELATIONSHIP TO THE A. MAGNA–A. MURPHYI COMPLEX AND A. STERILIS

1974 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 677-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris L. Craig ◽  
Beatrice E. Murray ◽  
Tibor Rajhathy
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Morphological Traits ◽  
Elevation Gradient ◽  
A Genome ◽  
Electrophoretic Polymorphism ◽  
Esterase Patterns

Avena canariensis, a recently discovered oat species from Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, has distinctive ecotypes, is polymorphic in morphological traits and in protein and esterase patterns forming clinal areas within the elevation gradient on the island. A comparison of leaf esterase patterns with that of other species provides evidence favoring A. canariensis as donor of the A genome in the A. magna–A. murphyi–A. sterilis evolutionary cluster.

Assessment of sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifoliaScop.) germplasm for agro-morphological traits and nutritive value

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 958-966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surendra Bhattarai ◽  
Bruce Coulman ◽  
Aaron D. Beattie ◽  
Bill Biligetu
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Traits ◽  
Nutritive Value

An animal house study on utilisation of fresh tedera (Bituminaria bituminosa var. albomarginata and crassiuscula) by Merino wethers

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 617 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Oldham ◽  
D. Wood ◽  
J. Milton ◽  
D. Real ◽  
P. Vercoe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Blood Chemistry ◽  
Dairy Goats ◽  
Drought Tolerant ◽  
Bituminaria Bituminosa ◽  
Condition Score ◽  
Perennial Legume ◽  
Animal House

Bituminaria bituminosa is a drought-tolerant, perennial legume that has been used for centuries as a part of the mixed sward in grazing systems around the Mediterranean sea and ‘cut and carried’ to feed as hay to dairy goats in the Canary Islands; varieties albomarginata and crassiuscula, commonly known as tedera, are native only to the Canary Islands. In south-western Australia, tedera will likely be directly grazed as green plants to help fill the feed gap in summer–autumn, due to its drought tolerance and capacity to retain green leaves. There are no reports of ill-effects of grazing tedera in its native environment; however, tedera is never the sole diet there. Hence, before proceeding to grazing trials it was important to conduct pen feeding studies with a sole diet of tedera. Sheep fed fresh tedera exclusively for 34 days readily consumed the forage and remained in good health, as reflected by a standard set of blood chemistry parameters. Furthermore, while the intake of the sheep fed tedera may not have been ad libitum (~1.0 kg DM/head.day), they maintained their liveweight (42.5 kg) and body condition (condition score 3) throughout the experiment. This is the first experiment to measure the in vivo digestibility and nitrogen balance of sheep fed ‘fresh’ tedera forage. During the metabolism study, the in vivo digestibility of organic matter in the dry matter of the fresh tedera was similar to that of lucerne chaff (59% vs 55%) when the sheep fed lucerne chaff had their intake restricted to that of those fed tedera.

South Florida Tropicals: Carambola

EDIS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Simonne ◽  
Linda Bobroff
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Nutritive Value ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Star Fruit ◽  
Major Revision

The carambola or star fruit is native to Southeast Asia. It was introduced to Florida about 100 years ago. This 4-page fact sheet is a major revision that discusses availability, selection, uses, nutritive value, and food safety during preparation of carambola. This document also includes several recipes.

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