We investigated the effectiveness of soil liming during grass sowing and application of inoculation of perennial legume grass seeds with nitrogen-fixing and phosphate-mobilizing preparations. Methods. Field studies were conducted during 2016-2020 in the National Scientific Center "Institute of Farming of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine" (northern part of the Forest-steppe of Ukraine, Chabany settlement, Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district of Kyiv region). Area of the sowing plot was 30 m2, control plot - 25 m². Repetition of experience four times. Technology of cultivation of perennial grasses and their mixtures was generally accepted. Nitrogen fertilizers in the form of ammonium nitrate containing 34% of active substance, phosphorus as simple superphosphate (18.7%) and potassium as potassium chloride (60%) were applied annually in early spring according to the experimental scheme. Liming was carried out by the lime application under pre-sowing cultivation during perennial grass sowing in a dose of 5 t/ha. Seeds of perennial legume grasses were inoculated with the strains of nodule bacteria, according to the technological instructions, immediately before the sowing. Dry weight content was determined by thermostatic weight method at 105 °C. Green mass yield was accounted by weight method, by weighing with subsequent recalculation of yield from 1 ha of dry weight. Results. The productivity of monogenic sowings of perennial leguminous grasses and their mixtures with awnless bromegrass in the variant without fertilization varied within the range of 5.12-8.38 tons, which is 1.7-2.5 times higher compared to the cereal grass stand which was formed from monogenic sowings of awnless bromegrass, for the five years on the average and for the yield from 1 ha of dry weight. The highest productivity and the level of accumulation of symbiotic nitrogen (191-266 kg/ha) were obtained in agrocenoses with alfalfa and the lowest one - with meadow clover.
There showed the productivity, chemical composition of feed and the timing of mowing of grass and variety mixes of permanent grasses on drained peat soils of Left Bank Forest-Steppe of Ukraine. The presence of early rip ened seeded grass provides a uniform supply use mowed mass from middle May until the end of September and the productivity of lands, which ranges from 10 to 14 t/ha of dry weight, metabolizable energy – 100.0 – 130.0 GJ and feed units 7-11 t/ha. Additional manuring of N90 on the background Р45К120 is effective at the start of second year of use. On the organization of hay conveyors of different ripening time herbages is possible to extend the optimal tim ing of mowing of green mass to 25-35 days. Best among the early-maturing grass crops are Dactylis glomerata va riety Kyivska rannia-1 with Alopecurus pratensis variety Sarnenskiy ranniy or its mixture with Bromus inermis and Festuca pratensis. With medium ripening – pure sowing eastern fescue of variety Lyudmila, Phalaris arundinacea variety Sarnenski-40, Bromus inermis variety Arsen and their compounds. High productivity of late-ripening herb age is provided by the inclusion in the composition of grass mixtures of Phleum pratense L. variety Vyshgorodska and Dactylis glomerata of variety Ukrainka, and Agrostis gigantea Roth variety Sarnenska piznia. It is also possible organization hay conveyors of different ripening varieties of Dactylis glomerata varieties Kyivska rannia, Muravka, Ukrainka.
Purpose. To establish changes in botanical composition, density and linear growth of components of legume-cereal agrophytocenoses with the participation of various leguminous and cereal perennial grasses in comparison with cereal grasses on different backgrounds of mineral fertilizer on sod-podzolic soils of Carpathian foothills. Methods. General scientific – hypotheses, induction and deduction, analogies, generalizations and special – field, laboratory, mathematical and statistical, computational and comparative. Results. Averagely over four years, the share of the deervetch in the crop with nitrogen-free fertilizition was the largest and ranged from 53-59% with the number of shoots 844-888 pcs/m2. The share of alfalfa sown and the density of its shoots were the lowest and ranged from 32-36% and 335-373 pcs/m2. Meadow clover in legume-cereal agrophytocenoses was well maintained only in the first 2-3 years of use with a share of 60-70%. Eastern galega was kept in grasslands for four years with a share of 36-40%. Legume components had a positive effect on the linear growth of cereal components. In deervetch-cereal stands on nitrogen-free backgrounds, it was 9-12 cm larger compared to the height of the same cereals in cereal mixtures. Conclusions. It is established that for four years the best in legume-cereal agrophytocenoses is kept horned, and alfalfa sowing is the worst. Meadow clover is well kept in grasslands only in the first three years of life. Eastern galega is well kept in grasslands, but with a smaller proportion than deervetch. The share of deervetch in the crop on the nitrogen-free fertilization backgrounds is the highest and ranges from 53 to 59% with a shoot density of 844-888 pcs/m2. The proportion of the alfalfa and the density of its shoots is the smallest – 32-36% and 335-373 pcs/m2 respectively.
The conducted research of various authors has developed a number of measures for surface improvement of meadowland in various soil and climatic conditions. However, studies on the influence of such surface improvement measures as the use of organic and mineral fertilizers and sowing of perennial grasses and legumes in the sod on the dynamics of the species composition of Floodplain Mountain meadows of the Carpathians have not yet been conducted, which confirms the relevance of this study. The article presents the results of three-year studies conducted during 2017-2019 in the peasant farm of V.F. Martyshchuk (the Verkhovinsky District of the Ivano-Frankivsk region) to study the features of transformation of the species composition of natural phytocenoses of floodplain Meadows of the Black Cheremosh river of the mountain and forest belt of the Carpathians under the influence of their surface improvement with the use of organic and mineral fertilizers and sowing of a cereal mixture for haymaking use and Tribolium repens L. for multipurpose use. It was found that floodplain Meadow phytocenoses were mainly cereals and mixed grasses with a share of wild cereals of 57-58% (up to 15 of them % Festuca rubra L. s. str. and 5-6% of low-value ones in feed terms Calamagrostis arundinaceae (L.) Roth and Deschampsia caespitosa (L.) Beauv.), mixed grasses – 35-38% and unseeded Fabaceae 5-7%. When applying a set of measures for surface improvement of cereals and mixed grasses, low productive (within 1.95-2.15 t/ha of dry weight) floodplain mountain meadowlands, their species composition improved. For making P30K60 the content of wild plants increased by 2-5% Fabaceae, and N60P30K60 – by 9-10% unseeded Poaceae. For haymaking use, Poaceae with Phleum pratense L. and Festuca pratensis Huds. against the background of making N60P30K60 for sowing a mixture in the sod in the spring, their share increased to 74%, and for multi-year use and sowing Trifolium repens L. against the background of making P30K60 the quantity of Fabaceae increased to 44% or by 32%. The highest floral saturation (43 species from 19 families and 93-98% from perennials) was observed in variants without fertilization and with the introduction of P30K60 for multi-year use, which is 4-14 species more compared to haymaking use, or with the introduction of N60P30K60 and or with sowing a mixture of cereals on the background of N60P30K60 for haymaking use, or sowing Trifolium repens L. against the background of P30K60 for multipurpose use
Climate warming, which began in the second half of XIX century, and with a certain intensity continues today, cannot but be reflected in the future on the structural and functional organization of grasslands and their productivity, as well as on strategic methods of their improvement. Our 20-years long studies showed that phytocenosis respond to climate aridization through a significant decrease in performance even on low-lying meadows with a shallow (1-2 m below the ground) subterranean waters. In dry years, the productivity of most grass mixtures with a predominance in their composition meso-phytes, when compared with their average annual productivity in all years of research in these conditions, decreased by 26%-36%. However, environmental and biological structure of cenosis in this type of habitat remained stable. At the watershed habitat, where moisture is supplied only due to precipitation, more stringent conditions for grasses are formed due to the climate warming. This not only leads to poor performance, but also to changes in ecological and biological structure in terms of strengthening of cenosis xerophytization, hence the need to improve the range of perennial grasses and technologies for improvement and use of grasslands. The article includes an analysis of modern methods to provide the Ukrainian grasslands with composition of species and varieties of perennial grasses. It also outlines the main directions of their improvement in accordance with the regional topoecological composition due to the climate warming.
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