Introductory Chapter: Milestones in<i>Grasses and Grassland</i>Research

Kindomihou, Valentin

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“…Cymbopogon schoenanthus L. Spreng. (Poaceae) is a tropical aromatic spice, forage, medicinal and stock biopesticide [6]- [11]. Its essential oil contains biocidal piperitone and repellent on the aphid stage 4 adult apterans of Aphis gossypii, a cotton pest [8], [12]- [14].…”

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“…Its mixture with Neem oil serves as an antiinflammatory inhibiting the growth of adult P. xylostella [16], or as a raw material to the biopesticide industry [15], [16]. Moreover, C. schoenanthus is also a consumed and well-fed Sudanese forage plant [11], [17], a perennial grass species from Andropogoneae tribe, growing in dense compact clumps at its base [18]. Benin Republic belongs to the Western Africa which savannas are globally marked with poor agricultural soils [18].…”

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“…Compost has advantage of not affecting the grass palatability [25], [26], which allows quickly grazing after spreading. Moreover, the compost amended meadows are less fragile to drought and excess water [11], [27]- [29].…”

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Agronomic Responses of Cymbopogon schoenanthus L. Spreng., a Sudanese Forage Grass Grown under Compost for a Bio-Ecological Pasture in the Southern Benin

Mensah

Kindomihou

Tovignan

et al. 2021

EJBIO

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Promoting ecological and organic agriculture (including livestock) requires biological resources and alternatives. Cymbopogon schoenanthus is a sudano-sahelian grass species whose crude leaf essential oils, in addition to their antifungal, antimicrobial, antibacterial and acridifuge or acridicide properties, can be an alternative to chemical insecticides in preventing pests and diseases that limit crops productivities. This study tests the agronomic performances of Cymbopogon schoenanthus grown under three doses of compost. Stumps collected from the Park W of Niger were transplanted to the experimental farm of the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences of University of Abomey-Calavi in the Southern Benin. The experimental design was a complete randomized block with treatments (0 ton per hectare (i.e., control), 5 tons per hectare and 10 tons per hectare of compost) in four replicates. Plants responses to the compost application throughout traits such as heights, number of tillers per plant, number of flowering tillers and dry aerial biomass production, were analyzed with a one-way ANOVA using STATISTICA 9.0. The results show significant responses of the aerial organs of C. schoenanthus to organic fertilization (p<0.05) with the best performance under 5 tons of compost per hectare: height growth in magnitude of 12.72%, number of tillers multiplied in 146.06% and aerial dry biomass in 178.32%. However, fertilization did not influence flowers appearance. Further studies are required for assessing foliar, nutritional quality and essential oil responses to the compost application in order to sustainably promote small ruminants’ organic production.

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