TROPICAL FORAGE LEGUMES
CONTENTS 1 PROVIDING PASTURE AND LEY LEGUMES FOR USE ON CLAY SOILS IN TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS 2 THE COLLECTION AND INITIAL EVALUATION OF A WIDE RANGE OF PASTURE LEGUMES FROM MEXICO, BELIZE AND GUATEMALA: IMPLICATIONS FOR GENETIC RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT FOR TROPICAL COUNTRIES 3 DEVELOPING AND UTILIZING GENETIC RESOURCE COLLECTIONS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE TROPICAL LEGUMINOUS GENUS STYLOSANTHES 4 DESMANTHUS, A TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FORAGE LEGUME: DEVELOPING GERMPLASM RESOURCES FOR MORE SUBTROPICAL AND HIGH ALTITUDE ENVIRONMENTS 5 A NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF VARIATION PATTERNS IN THE GENUS DESMANTHUS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY 6 SEARCHING FOR PASTURE LEGUMES FOR HEAVY CLAY SOILS IN THE AUSTRALIAN DRY TROPICS AND SUBTROPICS: I INITIAL LITERATURE REVIEWS, DATA ANALYSIS AND CHOICE OF MATERIAL FOR TEST 7 SEARCHING FOR PASTURE LEGUMES FOR HEAVY CLAY SOILS IN THE AUSTRALIAN DRY TROPICS AND SUBTROPICS: II ANCILLARY FLORISTIC, CLIMATIC AND EDAPHIC STUDIES 8 SEARCHING FOR PASTURE LEGUMES FOR HEAVY CLAY SOILS IN THE AUSTRALIAN DRY TROPICS AND SUBTROPICS: III THE INITIAL EVALUATION OF INTRODUCED MATERIAL 9 SEARCHING FOR PASTURE LEGUMES FOR HEAVY CLAY SOILS IN THE AUSTRALIAN DRY TROPICS AND SUBTROPICS: IV EVALUATION IN WESTERN QUEENSLAND 10 RECENT DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIAL ADOPTION OF LEGUMES FOR HEAVY CLAY SOILS IN QUEENSLAND 11 DEVELOPING AND COMMERCIALIZING NEW PASTURE LEGUMES FOR CLAY SOILS IN THE SEMI-ARID RANGELANDS OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA: THE NEW DESMANTHUS CULTIVARS JCU 1–5 AND THE PROGARDES STORY 12 THE CATTLE INDUSTRY OF BELIZE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TO THE MID-1970S 13 BOTANICAL COMPOSITION AND NUTRITIVE VALUE OF SELECTED NATIVE PASTURES IN BELIZE 14 SINGLE PLANT TRIALS OF POTENTIAL FORAGE LEGUMES FOR BELIZEAN PASTURES ON CLAY SOILS OF THE UPPER BELIZE RIVER AND THE LOWLAND PINE RIDGE 15 FORAGE LEGUME ADAPTATION STRIP TRIALS IN BELIZE 16 INITIAL SCREENING FOR PERSISTENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY OF 20 PROMISING NATIVE AND EXOTIC PASTURE LEGUME SPECIES IN TWO PRODUCTIVE CONTRASTING FORAGE GRASSES IN BELIZE 17 PRODUCTIVITY OF 16 FORAGE LEGUMES UNDER CUTTING IN BELIZE ON CONTRASTING SOILS: A HIGH ALLUVIAL TERRACE AND A LOWLAND PINE SAVANNA I DRY MATTER YIELDS 18 PRODUCTIVITY OF 16 FORAGE LEGUMES IN MIXED SWARDS UNDER CUTTING IN BELIZE ON CONTRASTING SOILS: A HIGH ALLUVIAL TERRACE AND A LOWLAND PINE SAVANNA II NUTRIENT LEVELS AND FEEDING VALUE