Global InformationBrachiaria ruziziensis information
| Brachiaria ruziziensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae
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| (unranked): | Angiosperms
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| (unranked): | Monocots
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| (unranked): | Commelinids
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| Order: | Poales
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| Family: | Poaceae
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| Genus: | Brachiaria
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| Species: | B. ruziziensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Brachiaria ruziziensis Germ. & C.M.Evrard
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Brachiaria ruziziensis or Congo grass is a forage crop that is grown throughout the humid tropics. With fast growth at the beginning of the wet season due to strong seedling vigour, ease of establishment, good seed production and yield and the ability to suppress weeds it has the ability to become developed into the most important forage crop planted in the tropics.[1] With the aid of genomic tools to research the genotype and gain more information there is the ability to increase breeding programs which are currently rather limited.[2]
- ^ Schultze-Kraft, R; J.K. Teitzel (1992). "Brachiaria ruziziensis". Plant Resources of Southeast Asia (4): 65–67.
- ^ Silva, P; A. Martins (2013). "Development and validation of microsatellitte markers for Brachiaria ruziziensis obtained by partial genome assembly of illumine single-end reads". BMC Genomics. 14: 17. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-14-17. PMC 3565986. PMID 23324172.