• Agronomic characterization of paspalum atratum swallen and P. lenticulare kunth 

      Marcón, Florencia; Urbani, Mario Hugo; Quarin, Camilo Luis; Acuña, Carlos Alberto (International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), 2018-05-31)
      Paspalum atratum and P. lenticulare are perennial grasses, native to South America. The objective was to evaluate seasonal growth, frost tolerance, cattle preference, nutritional characteristics, seed yield and germination ...
    • Crecimiento estacional y fenología en ecotipos de paspalum lenticulare y p. atratum 

      Marcón, Florencia; Urbani, Mario Hugo; Acuña, Carlos Alberto (Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Secretaría General de Ciencia y Técnica, 2013)
      En la actualidad existen diversas técnicas que permiten mejorar genéticamente especies de plantas que se reproducen por apomixis (clonación por medio de semillas). A pesar de ello, la mayoría de los cultivares que existen ...
    • Heterosis and expressivity of apospory in tetraploid bahiagrass hybrids 

      Zilli, Alex Leonel; Brugnoli, Elsa Andrea; Marcón, Florencia; Billa, M. B.; Ríos, Esteban Fernando; Martínez, Eric Javier; Acuña, Carlos Alberto (Crop Science Soc Amer, 2015)
      Breeding procedures developed for apomictic species are based on the idea of fixing superior hybrids by apomixis. However, scarce information is available about the occurrence of heterosis in apomictic hybrids. The objective ...
    • Hybridization and heterosis in the plicatula group of paspalum 

      Novo, Patricia Elda; Acuña, Carlos Alberto; Quarin, Camilo Luis; Urbani, Mario Hugo; Marcón, Florencia; Espinoza, Francisco (Springer, 2017)
      Most forage cultivars released for thegenus Paspalum belong to a section named Plicatula.The species of Plicatula are mostly apomictic andconsequently the genetic diversity is locked for theirgeneticimprovement. The ...