napier

Usually, a piece of stem with at least two or three nodes is used, but the most vigorous species, such as napier, can be propagated from single-node cuttings if material is scarce.

4.1 Nursery establishment 1999

It has outstanding promise as a "safety line" to anchor broad strips of other grasses, such as napier grass.

2 Case Studies 1993

Another neat educational tool we got at school and at home 'cause my parents were both teachers was napier rods.

News from the House of Sticks - 2004

Grasses grown from single or double-node stem cuttings, such as dhonde, narkat and napier, require only one slip per planting drill.

4.1 Nursery establishment 1999

Although it is not yet possible to regenerate protoplasts in pearl millet, it is possible to regenerate suspension cultures (including those of pearl millet x napier grass hybrids) into whole plants.

6. Pearl Millet: Commercial Types 1996

Some hybridization work has already been done involving napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum).

6. Pearl Millet: Commercial Types 1996

Foliage of the tree legumes gliricidia, leucaena, and sesbania as a supplement to napier grass diets for growing goats.

Chapter 10 1996

In isolated locations (and on sites quelea should find irresistible), they planted plots of napier grass and shaped them with slightly narrowed waists where the barriers and traps could be easily erected.

Chapter 23 1996

Pearl millet x napier grass hybrids have been released for perennial fodder supplies in India, the United States, and various other nations.

6. Pearl Millet: Commercial Types 1996

In addition, local farmers have found that the foliage makes excellent mulch, and they say that (compared to napier grass, for example) it is easier to manage because it does not seed or take root when they spread it on their gardens or fields.

2 Case Studies 1993