Número de perfilhos do capim-braquiária em regime de lotação contínua
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2011-02-14
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Santos, Manoel Eduardo Rozalino
Gomes, Virgilio Mesquita
Da Fonseca, Dilermando Miranda
Albino, Ronan Lopes
Da Silva, Simone Pedro [UNESP]
Santos, Andreza Luzia
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The study was conducted to identify, through assessments of tillering, appropriate management strategies for Brachiaria decumbens cv. Basilisk under continuous stocking with cattle. Two management strategies were studied: pasture with 25 cm throughout the experimental period, and pasture with 15 cm in winter and 25 cm in spring and summer. A split-plot and randomized block design with four replications were adopted. The management strategies represented the primary factor, and the seasons (winter, spring and summer) were the secondary factor. The lowest balance between rates of appearance (TAR) and mortality (TMR) of tillers and the lowest number of vegetative tillers occurred in winter. In spring and summer, the balance and number of vegetative tillers were higher and did not differ. The lowering of pasture in winter resulted in greater balance between TAR and TMR and higher number of tillers in relation to management on sward fixed at 25 cm. There were greater numbers of reproductive and dead tillers in summer and winter, respectively. The pastures with fixed height of 25 cm contained a higher number of dead tiller. Under continuous stocking, the lowering of B. decumbens pasture in winter and its increase to 25 cm in spring and summer optimizes turnover of tillers.
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Brachiaria decumbens, Grazing, Season, Seasonal management, Sward height, Bos, Brachiaria, Urochloa brizantha
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Acta Scientiarum - Animal Sciences, v. 33, n. 1, p. 1-7, 2011.