Intensification: A Key Strategy to Achieve Great Animal and Environmental Beef Cattle Production Sustainability in Brachiaria Grasslands

AS Cardoso, RP Barbero, EP Romanzini… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Intensification of tropical grassland can be a strategy to increase beef production, but
methods for achieving this should maintain or reduce its environmental impact and should …

Greenhouse gas mitigation and carbon sequestration potential in humid grassland ecosystems in Brazil: A review

HMS da Silva, JCBD Júnior, ML Silveira… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change is a major constraint on the sustainability of the humid tropics, maintaining
ecosystem services, food production, and social functioning. Humid tropics play an essential …

Effects of nitrogen fertilization on protein and carbohydrate fractions of Marandu palisadegrass

RG Leite, AS Cardoso, NVB Fonseca, MLC Silva… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The effects of nitrogen (N) fertilization levels on protein and carbohydrate fractions in
Marandu palisadegrass pasture [Urochloa brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) RD Webster] were …

The effect of meso-institutions on adoption of sustainable agricultural technology: A case study of the Brazilian Low Carbon Agriculture Plan

MMB Vinholis, MSM Saes, MJ Carrer… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Macro and micro institutions have received considerable attention from institutional theory in
the analysis of organizational performance. The role played by meso-institutions has hardly …

Grazing Intensity Impacts on Herbage Mass, Sward Structure, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Animal Performance: Analysis of Brachiaria Pastureland

AC Ruggieri, AS Cardoso, F Ongaratto… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
A 7 year experiment (2008–2014) evaluated cattle grazing intensity (sward height) effects on
herbage mass, forage quality, and greenhouse gas emissions in continuously stocked …

New outcomes on how silicon enables the cultivation of Panicum maximum in soil with water restriction

JR Rocha, R de Mello Prado, M de Cássia Piccolo - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Climate change increases the occurrence of droughts, decreasing the production of tropical
forages through the induction of physiological stress. Si is expected to broaden the limit from …

Fatores que afetam as características morfogênicas e estruturais de plantas forrageiras

NT Cruz, AJV Pires, DD Fries, RR Jardim… - Research, Society and …, 2021 - rsdjournal.org
The objective of this review was to address the main factors that affect the morphogenic and
structural characteristics of forage plants. Within the Brazilian agricultural system, there is a …

Biological and economic responses to increasing nitrogen rates in Mombaça guinea grass pastures

VPB Euclides, DB Montagner, AR de Araújo… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Nitrogen fertilization has been recognized as an essential tool towards the establishment of
sustainable intensification of pasture-based livestock systems using tropical perennial …

Microalgal biomass as a biofertilizer for pasture cultivation: Plant productivity and chemical composition

JF Lorentz, ML Calijuri, PP Assemany, WS Alves… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of fertilization of a marandu grass
pasture with microalgae biomass produced during the treatment of a wastewater from a …

Exogenous GABA promotes adaptation and growth by altering the carbon and nitrogen metabolic flux in poplar seedlings under low nitrogen conditions

W Chen, C Meng, J Ji, MH Li, X Zhang, Y Wu… - Tree …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Nitrogen (N) deficiency adversely affects tree growth. Additionally, γ-aminobutyric acid
(GABA) is closely associated with growth and stress responses because of its effects on …