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Pastos y Forrajes

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OLIVERA, Yuseika et al. Morphological characterization of 19 Brachiaria brizantha accessions on an acid soil. Pastos y Forrajes [online]. 2014, vol.37, n.2, pp.138-144. ISSN 0864-0394.

The objective of this study was to characterize a collection of 19 Brachiaria brizantha accessions, obtained from the International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia, and preserved in the germplasm bank of the Pasture and Forage Research Station of Cascajal, Cuba. A total of 17 (13 quantitative and 4 qualitative) international descriptors for forage grasses and others of interest were used. The measurements and observations were performed in the vegetative and reproductive stages. The principal components analysis allowed to prove the existence of a relatively high variability, because the accumulated reached 81,22 % in the first five components. In component one, the indicators with higher influence were: number of spikelets, number of stalks, and the inflorescence width. With the use of the cluster analysis six groups were differentiated; the accessions CIAT-16317 and CIAT-26290, which formed group V, showed the best values in several indicators. That phenotypical variability is important, because it allows to assert that there is a differentiated B. brizantha germplasm, with an acceptable morphological richness, which must be known in order to prevent duplications. The characterization of this collection allowed to prove its relative variability, where the highest differentiation degree was found in the quantitative traits. It is suggested to perform this activity as initial stage of the evaluation process, and to conduct essays in which their potential for agroproductive indicators of interest, with selective purposes, is evaluated.

Palabras clave : evaluation; germplasm; grasses.

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