Genetic resources of perennial forage grasses in Serbia: Current state, broadening and evaluation

Sokolović, D.; Babić, Snežana; Radovic, J.; Lugić, Z.; Simić, Aleksandar; Zornić, Vladimir; Petrović, Mirjana

doi:10.5937/selsem1701069s

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“…It is widespread in Serbia (Sokolović et al, 2017), mostly at the edges of semi-xerophylous or xerophylous natural grasslands of alliance Festucion vallesiaceae and beside the roads next to mesophylous grasslands which sin-taxonomically belong to order Arrhenatheretalia.…”

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Breeding and agronomic performance of new smooth bromegrass cultivar Kruševački 46 (K-46)

Sokolović¹,

Babić²,

Radovic³

et al. 2019

Selekcija i semenarstvo

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Smooth bromegrass (Bromus inermis Leyss.) is rhizomatous perennial forage grass species spread all over Serbia, mostly beside the roads and at the edges of semi-xerophylous or xerophylous natural grasslands. Stabile and high forage yield, classify Smooth bromegrass in a group of forage grasses suitable for mixtures composing for drought conditions and poor soils in agro-ecological conditions of Serbia. It can be used traditionally for hay production, but also in quality mixtures with legumes for silage or haylage production. Cultivar K-46 is created by multiple phenotypic recurrent selection of populations collected across central Serbia. The main breeding goal was developing of genotypes of Bromus inermis with improved yield and chemical composition of dry matter. Since this grass species generally have been characterised with a lot of large but indelicate leaves, improvement of its biomass quality requires breeding of leaf parameters (size, number, position, etc.). In plot trial on three locations in two years period (2015 and 2016) cultivar K-46 reached average DMY of 6400 kg ha-1. The average height of plants at the moment of cutting was 81.6 cm. Crude protein content was 11.61 g kg-1 of dry matter in the first cut and 13.51 g kg-1 in the second cut, which represents the good quality of grass biomass. New cultivar K-46, which is registered in December 2017, is suitable for mixtures composing for long-lasting and durable grasslands on light, marginal and dry soils. It stabilises land and produces enough amount of quality herbage which can be used with legumes species as complete forage meal for ruminants. It is adapted for cutting and tolerates dry, poor and eroded soils, therefore it shows best results on grasslands on hilly mountainous areas.

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confidence: 99%

Breeding and agronomic performance of new smooth bromegrass cultivar Kruševački 46 (K-46)

Sokolović¹,

Babić²,

Radovic³

et al. 2019

Selekcija i semenarstvo

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Perennial grasses in phytoremediation—challenges and opportunities

Pandey

Maiti

2020

Phytoremediation Potential of Perennial Grasses

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Buffer Green Patches around Urban Road Network as a Tool for Sustainable Soil Management

Petrova

Nikolov

Velcheva

et al. 2022

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Urban areas are facing a range of environmental challenges including air, water and soil pollution as a result of industrial, domestic and traffic emissions. In addition, global climate change is likely to aggravate certain urban problems and disturb the urban ecology by increasing the frequency and severity of extreme weather events. In the context of urbanization growth and the consequent impact on the environment, there is a growing interest in maintaining urban soil quality and functions as they are the medium for green infrastructure development. Furthermore, urban soils are becoming one of the key factors in the delivery of many ecosystem services such as carbon storage, climate regulation, water flow regulation, etc. On the other hand, urban soils are well-known to be a major sink of air pollutants due to the wet and dry atmospheric deposition and recirculation. Soil has the ability to degrade some chemical contaminants but when the levels are high, urban soils could hold on large amounts and pose a risk to human health. A cost-effective technological solution is to use the ability of some plant species to metabolize, accumulate and detoxify heavy metals or other harmful organic or inorganic compounds from the soil layer. The establishment of urban lawns (grass covered surfaces) is a helpful, environmentally friendly, economically sustainable and cost-effective approach to remove contaminants from polluted soils (terrains), which also has some aesthetic benefits. In this paper, an overview of the benefits and limitations of urban lawn construction is presented. The focus is on the perspectives for sustainable management of urban lawns, especially as buffer green patches in the road network surroundings, that can represent strategies to provide ecological and social multifunctionality of urban soils, and thus, increasing their ecosystem services capacity. Specifically, the paper highlights (i) the possibilities for phytoremediation of urban soils, (ii) potential of some perennial grasses and (iii) key issues that should be considered in the planning and design of urban lawns.

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Genetic resources of perennial forage grasses in Serbia: Current state, broadening and evaluation

Cited by 3 publications

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Breeding and agronomic performance of new smooth bromegrass cultivar Kruševački 46 (K-46)

Breeding and agronomic performance of new smooth bromegrass cultivar Kruševački 46 (K-46)

Perennial grasses in phytoremediation—challenges and opportunities

Buffer Green Patches around Urban Road Network as a Tool for Sustainable Soil Management

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