Growth Rate And Biomass Accumulation Of Forage Sorghum (sorghum Almum), Congo Grass (brachiaria Ruziziensis) And Rhodes Grass (chloris Gayana)

 ABSTRACT Many grasses have played prominent roles in forage research and livestock production in Nigeria. Grasses possess two main photosynthetic pathways: the C3 pathway that is typical of most plants and a specialized C4 pathway that minimizes photorespiration and thus increases photosynthetic performance in high-temperature and/ or low- CO2 environments. Rhodes grass (Chloris gayana) is a perennial grass of tropical and subtropical Africa where it remained one of the main C4 forage grasses. Forage Sorghum (Sorghum a/mum) originated in Argentina and the latitudinal range of the grass is 25°…