Sentences with phrase «perennial ryegrass»

Supplemental Material for «Overcoming challenges in variant calling: exploring sequence diversity in candidate genes for plant development in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)»

Over two years of field experiments in the south west the team demonstrated that the hybrid, named Festulolium, reduced water runoff from agricultural grassland by up to 51 per cent compared to a leading UK nationally - recommended perennial ryegrass cultivar and by 43 per cent compared to meadow fescue.

Cover - crop species grown in monocultures and in mixtures during the study included oats, canola, sunn hemp, soybean, barley, perennial ryegrass, forage radish, cereal rye, millet, sudangrass, red clover and hairy vetch.

The BBSRC - funded scientists, from Rothamsted Research, the James Hutton Institute, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University, Lancaster University and the University of Nottingham, used a hybridised species of grass called perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) with a closely related species called meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis).

Over the past 18 months farmer Phillip Jennings has meticulously grown and groomed a mix of perennial ryegrass, Kentucky bluegrass and bermuda grass on his 3,000 - acre spread, and that turf will now serve as the playing surface for Super Bowl XXXIX.