Safety of Chinese Cabbage Waste and Rice Straw Mixed Silage and Its Effect on Growth and Health Performance of Hu Sheep by Zhiqi Lu, Chuang Li, Lie Hou, Zhenbin Zhang, Yue Lu, Chun Xue, Ruxin Qi, Muhammad Hammad Zafar, Jun Xu, Mengzhi Wang

“…In this experiment, the plant feed (corn husk, peanut shells and sorghum shells) was used as the control group (CON group), and the mixed silage of Chinese cabbage waste and rice straw (mixed silage) was used as the experiment group (TRE group), and its safety performance was evaluated by testing its toxin content, pesticide residues, vitamin contents and feeding experiment of Hu sheep. …”
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Resequencing of 1,143 indica rice accessions reveals important genetic variations and different heterosis patterns by Qiming Lv, Weiguo Li, Zhizhong Sun, Ning Ouyang, Xin Jing, Qiang He, Jun Wu, Jiakui Zheng, Jiatuan Zheng, Shaoqing Tang, Renshan Zhu, Yan Tian, Meijuan Duan, Yanning Tan, Dong Yu, Xiabing Sheng, Xuewu Sun, Gaofeng Jia, Hongzhen Gao, Qin Zeng, Yufei Li, Li Tang, Qiusheng Xu, Bingran Zhao, Zhiyuan Huang, Hongfeng Lu, Na Li, Jian Zhao, Lihuang Zhu, Dong Li, Longping Yuan, Dingyang Yuan

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Deciphering Succession and Assembly Patterns of Microbial Communities in a Two-Stage Solid-State Fermentation System by Dengjin Shen, Hongye Shen, Qiang Yang, Shenxi Chen, Yaohao Dun, Yunxiang Liang, Jinshui Zheng, Shumiao Zhao

“…Here, we choose the Xiaoqu liquor brewing process as an experimental model in which sorghum grains were first aerobically saccharified and then anaerobically fermented after being stirred and acidified to explore multistage community succession patterns. …”
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QTL Mapping Combined With Comparative Analyses Identified Candidate Genes for Reduced Shattering in Setaria italica by Sandra Odonkor, Soyeon Choi, Debkanta Chakraborty, Liliam Martinez-Bello, Liliam Martinez-Bello, Xuewen Wang, Xuewen Wang, Xuewen Wang, Bochra A. Bahri, Bochra A. Bahri, Bochra A. Bahri, Maud I. Tenaillon, Olivier Panaud, Katrien M. Devos, Katrien M. Devos

“…Comparative analyses pinpointed Sh1 and qSH1, two shattering genes previously identified in sorghum and rice, as potentially underlying the QTL on Setaria chromosomes IX and V, respectively. …”
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Functional composition, antibacterial and antioxidative properties of oil and phenolics from Moroccan Pennisetum glaucum seeds by Ilias Marmouzi, Kaddafi Ali, Hicham Harhar, Said Gharby, Karima Sayah, Nadia El Madani, Yahia Cherrah, My El Abbes Faouzi

“…Pearl millet (PM) is the fifth most important cereal crop in the world after rice, wheat, maize, and sorghum. To date no previous studies have evaluated the nutritional characteristics and health promoting activity of the Moroccan variety. …”
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Genome-wide identification and expression profiling analysis of maize AP2/ERF superfamily genes reveal essential roles in abiotic stress tolerance by Jing Zhang, Jiayao Liao, Qiqi Ling, Yan Xi, Yexiong Qian

“…Gene duplication and synteny analysis revealed that tandem or segmental duplication and purifying selection might play significant roles in evolution and functional differentiation of AP2/ERF superfamily genes among three various gramineous species (maize, rice and sorghum). Using RNA-seq data, transcriptome analysis indicated that the majority of ZmAP2/ERF genes displayed differential expression patterns at different developmental stages of maize. …”
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The Physiological Functionality of PGR5/PGRL1-Dependent Cyclic Electron Transport in Sustaining Photosynthesis by Mingzhu Ma, Yifei Liu, Yifei Liu, Yifei Liu, Yifei Liu, Chunming Bai, Yunhong Yang, Zhiyu Sun, Xinyue Liu, Siwei Zhang, Xiaori Han, Jean Wan Hong Yong, Jean Wan Hong Yong

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Consumo de nutrientes e desempenho de cordeiros alimentados com dietas que contêm diferentes níveis de fibra em detergente neutro Intake of nutrients and performance of lambs fed w... by Adriano Ramos Cardoso, Cléber Cassol Pires, Sérgio Carvalho, Diego Barcelos Galvani, Felipe Jochims, Marcel Hastenpflug, Tatiana Pfüller Wommer

“…The roughage used was a hybrid sorghum silage (AG 2005 E) and the concentrate was composed of ground corn, soybean meal, common salt, limestone and dicalcium phosphate. …”
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Supplemental energy sources for Santa Inês sheep grazing on urochloa grass in the dry season Fontes energéticas suplementares para ovinos Santa Inês em pastagens de capim urocloa n... by Alana Batista dos Santos, Danilo Ribeiro de Souza, Evanilton Moura Alves, Saulo Tannus Azevedo, Mara lúcia Albuquerque Pereira, Paulo José Presidio Almeida, Taiala Cristina de Jesus Pereira, Márcio dos Santos Pedreira

“…The trial aimed to evaluate the effect of feeding of 1% body weight of concentrate supplementation, formulated with different ingredients (mesquite pod meal , sorghum meal or wheat bran), or without concentrate supplementation on behavioral parameters and cost of production of sheep kept in grazing urocloa grass. …”
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Comparative Genomics Unveils the Habitat Adaptation and Metabolic Profiles of Clostridium in an Artificial Ecosystem for Liquor Production by Guan-Yu Fang, Li-Juan Chai, Xiao-Zhong Zhong, Zhen-Ming Lu, Xiao-Juan Zhang, Lin-Huan Wu, Song-Tao Wang, Cai-Hong Shen, Jin-Song Shi, Zheng-Hong Xu

“…The long-term cereal fermentation with sorghum as the main raw material creates an environment rich in starch, ethanol, and organic acids (mainly lactic acid). …”
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Efecto de nucleótidos y péptidos de saccharomyces cerevisiae (nupro) en la alimentación de cerdos post-destete. by Ramón Florencio García Castillo, Kennedi Hernández Martínez, Jorge Ramsy Kawas Garza, Jaime Salinas Chavira, Aracelly Vega Ríos, Manuel Humberto Ruiloba Villarreal, Héctor Fimbres Durazo

“…Las dietas se basaron en pasta de soya Glycine max más sorgo Sorghum vulgare y fueron isoproteicas (21,0% proteína cruda) e isoenergéticas (3.110 Mcal energía metabolizable/ kg), con un contenido de lisina 1,33%; Ca 1,37% y P 0,74%. …”
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Physicochemical Properties and Bacterial Community Profiling of Optimal <i>Mahewu</i> (A Fermented Food Product) Prepared Using White and Yellow Maize with Different Inocula by Grace Abosede Daji, Ezekiel Green, Adrian Abrahams, Ajibola Bamikole Oyedeji, Kedibone Masenya, Kulsum Kondiah, Oluwafemi Ayodeji Adebo

“…Thereafter white and yellow maize <i>mahewu</i> were prepared with the optimized conditions using different inocula (sorghum malt flour, wheat flour, millet malt flour or maize malt flour) and the pH, TTA and TSS of the derived <i>mahewu</i> samples determined. …”
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Uréia em dietas para bovinos: consumo, digestibilidade dos nutrientes, ganho de peso, características de carcaça e produção microbiana Urea in diets of steers: intake, digestibilit... by Mônica Lopes Paixão, Sebastião de Campos Valadares Filho, Maria Ignez Leão, Rilene Ferreira Diniz Valadares, Mário Fonseca Paulino, Marcos Inácio Marcondes, Mozart Alves Fonseca, Polyana Albino Silva, Douglas dos Santos Pina

“…Diets were isonitrogenous (12% of CP) with the forage portion composed by elephant grass silage and sorghum silage in the ratio of 80:20. Efficiency of microbial protein synthesis was not affected by treatments. …”
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Investigation on the insecticidal activities of cyanobacterial extracts as an alternative source for the management of fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidopte... by Sharanappa C.H., Bheemanna M, Prabhuraj A, Harischandra R. Naik, Nagaraj M. Naik, Saroja N. Rao, Ihab Mohamed Moussa, Roua A. Alsubki, Fazal Ullah, Hosam O. Elansary, Kariyanna B

“…It severely damages crops, mainly in areas of the globewhere maize and sorghum are grown. The pest is difficult to control due to its adaptive nature and resistance to several insecticides available in the market. …”
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Barley-Based Cropping Systems and Weed Control Strategies Influence Weed Infestation, Soil Properties and Barley Productivity by Muhammad Naeem, Waqas Ahmed Minhas, Shahid Hussain, Sami Ul-Allah, Muhammad Farooq, Shahid Farooq, Mubshar Hussain

“…Barley was planted in five different cropping systems, i.e., fallow-barley (FB), maize-barley (MaB), cotton-barley (CB), mungbean-barley (MuB) and sorghum-barley (SB). Similarly, five different WCS, weed-free (control, WF), weedy-check (control, WC), false seedbeds (FS), chemical control (CC) and use of allelopathic water extracts (AWE), were included in the study. …”
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Supressão de plantas daninhas e produção de milho-verde orgânico em sistema de plantio direto Weed suppression and organic green corn production in no tillage system by L.R. Queiroz, J.C.C. Galvão, J.C. Cruz, M.F. Oliveira, F.D. Tardin

“…The trial was conducted with leguminous plants during the 2007/2008 season, at the Embrapa Corn and Sorghum Field Center in Sete Lagoas-MG. The experiment was arranged in a completely randomized block design with split-plots and four replications, with five species of leguminous plants being evaluated: jack bean (Canavalia ensiformes), pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan), mucuna-black (Mucuna aterrinum), mucuna dwarf (Mucuna deeringiana) and Crotalaria juncea, plus a control, spontaneous vegetation of the area. …”
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Expansion and Evolutionary Patterns of Glycosyltransferase Family 8 in Gramineae Crop Genomes and Their Expression under Salt and Cold Stresses in <i>Oryza sativa</i> ssp. <i>japon... by Weilong Kong, Ziyun Gong, Hua Zhong, Yue Zhang, Gangqing Zhao, Mayank Gautam, Xiaoxiao Deng, Chang Liu, Chenhao Zhang, Yangsheng Li

“…<i>japonica</i>, 41 in <i>Oryza rufipogon</i>, 36 in <i>Setaria italica</i>, 37 in <i>Sorghum bicolor</i>, and 45 in <i>Zea mays</i>. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that all identified GT8 proteins belonged to seven subfamilies: galacturonosyltransferase (GAUT), galacturonosyltransferase-like (GATL), GATL-related (GATR), galactinol synthase (GolS), and plant glycogenin-like starch initiation proteins A (PGSIP-A), PGSIP-B, and PGSIP-C. …”
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Decomposição e liberação de nutrientes de coquetéis vegetais para utilização no Semiárido brasileiro The decomposition and release of nutrients by plant mixtures in the Brazilian s... by Vanderlise Giongo, Alessandra Monteiro Salviano Mendes, Tony Jarbas Ferreira Cunha, Sandra Regina Silva Galvão

“…The experiment was carried out in a greenhouse, from November 2007 to July 2008, using plant mixtures made up of leguminous species (L) (calopo, Crotalaria juncea, Crotalaria spectabilis, jackbean, pigeon pea, lab-lab) and non-leguminous species (NL) (sesame, sunflower, castor, millet and sorghum) combined to give the following treatments: T1 - 100% NL, T2 - 100% L, T3 - 75% L and 25% NL, T4 - 50% L and 50% NL, T5 - 25% L and 75% NL. …”
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Molecular Characterization and Haplotype Analysis of <i>Low Phytic Acid-1</i> (<i>lpa1</i>) Gene Governing Accumulation of Kernel Phytic Acid in Subtropically-Adapted Maize by Vinay Bhatt, Vignesh Muthusamy, Rashmi Chhabra, Ashvinkumar Katral, Shridhar Ragi, Vinay Rojaria, Gulab Chand, Govinda Rai Sarma, Rajkumar Uttamrao Zunjare, Kusuma Kumari Panda, Ashok Kumar Singh, Firoz Hossain

“…Phylogenetic tree using nucleotide and protein sequences revealed a closer relationship of maize <i>Lpa1</i> sequences with <i>Sorghum bicolor</i>, <i>Panicum hallii</i>, <i>Setaria italica</i> and <i>S. viridis</i>. …”
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Crop rotation and soil biochemical and microbiological characteristics and corn crop yield </br>Rotação de culturas e relações com atributos químicos e microbiológicos do solo e pr... by Manoel Carlos Gonçalves, Cristiano Márcio Alves de Souza, Luiz Carlos Ferreira de Souza, Marlene Estevão Marchetti, Fabio Martins Mercante, Elaine Reis Pinheiro Lourente, Maria Anita Gonçalves Silva

“…Studied seasons were winter and summer and no tillage systems were represented by five crop rotation schemes, which involved the cultures of hairy vetch, bean, oat, forage turnip, soybean, crotalaria, corn, sorghum, pearl millet, sunflower and, in conventional tillage, with corn in winter and with soybean in summer. …”
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