napier grass

Firstly, not all varieties of Napier grass function as a trap.

Napier grass is valuable to African landscapes as it prevents soil erosion.

This deterrent is used in combination with Napier grass planted around the perimeter of the plot.

It grows well with ori, molasses, guinea and napier grass.

Napier grass (P. purpureum) is used for grazing livestock in Africa.

Napier grass is the most important fodder crop for the dairy farmers in East Africa.

Enhancement of Napier grass growth through introduction of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria.

Other plant life forms are cultivated tea, bananas, maize, coffee and napier grass, with very little remaining of indigenous biodiversity.

Trap plants such as Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum) may also be used.

Hairless plants are easier to handle, since the hairs of Napier grass are very irritating.

In addition to this, Napier grasses improve soil fertility, and protect arid land from soil erosion.

Napier grass also produces a gummy substance that traps the pests, so only about 10% of the stemborer-larvae survive.

Napier grass does not allow the stem borer insects to develop; they are inundated by latex in the late instars of their development.

In a farmer's field, it is recommended that three rows of bana Napier grass be planted as a border crop around the entire field.

A trap crop of napier grass is grown around the maize, which is more attractive to the stem borer than the maize.

The objective was to find the mixture between Crotalaria juncea and Napier grass that would yield the highest vegetable seedling production.

Napier grass has shown potential at attracting stemborer moths (a main cause of yield loss in Africa) away from maize and hence is the "pull" crop.

Researchers in Brazil looked into the best composition of organic compost using various combinations of Crotalaria juncea and Napier grass.

On comparison of fifty-three accessions of Napier grass and Napier x pearl millet hybrids, the collection was split into groups.

Napier grass produces significantly higher levels of attractive volatile compounds (green leaf volatiles), cues used by gravid stemborer females to locate host plants, than maize or sorghum.

Good trap crops include well-known grasses such as Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum) and Sudan grass (Sorghum vulgare sudanense).

Pennisetum purpureum, also known as Napier grass, elephant grass or Uganda grass, is a species of perennial tropical grass native to the African grasslands.

The U.S. government is reviewing the potential for two grass types -- Arundo donax and napier grass -- used for biofuel production elsewhere in the world.

It can also host the phytoplasma bacterium which causes stunting in Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum), and its infection has been dubbed Hyparrhenia grass white leaf disease.

A typical study might be to compare the effects of a dietary supplement such as Napier grass on milk yield and to examine its relative effects in animals with different lactation numbers.