• Journal of The Korean Society of Grassland and Forage Science
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.129-136
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• 2004

Jeju native sorghum was grown at six spot seeding rates (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) from April 3 to september 6, 2000 in Jeju island to determine influence of number of seeds per hill in dibbling on agronomic characters, forage yield and qualities. Days to heading was increased as number of seeds per hill was increased. Plant height with three seeds per hill (206.7 cm) was the longest, while with six seeds per hill (175.2 cm) was the shortest. Fresh forage, dry matter and crude protein yield and total digestible nutrient (TDN) were the greatest at the three seeds per hill (48.1, 10.1, 0.9, 5.1 MT/ha). Crude protein, crude fat and nitrogen-tree extract (NFE) increased with the number of seeds per hill increased but crude fiber and crude ash decreased.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Grassland and Forage Science
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.231-236
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• 2004

In order to identify the growth characteristics, the yield and chemical composition of Jeju native sorghum(Sorghum bicolor L.) based on seeding date in Jeju region. Seeding carried out the 10-day intervals from March 27 to May 27 in 2000, respectively. Plant height was 222.9 cm, Showing the highest on seeding date, April 7 among that of any other seeding date. On the other hand, those of early and late seeding gradually decreased. The results of stem diameter, number of leaves were similar to those of the plant height. The yield of fresh, dry matter forage, crude protein and TDN found the highest on April 7 seeding, 48.0 MT/ha, 12.0 MT/ha, 1.0 MT/ha, 5.3 MT/ha, respectively. In early and late seeding, the yield was gradually decreased. According to delaying the seeding date, March 27 to May 27, the contents of crude protein (from 7.8 to $11.4\%$) ether extract(from 1.7 to $3.3\%$), nitrogen free extract(from 34.1 to $40.0\%$) and TDN(from 42.9 to $52.5\%$) were gradually increased, respectively. On the other hand, those of crude fiber (from 40.6 to $32.3\%$) and crude ash (from 10.3 to $7.6\%$) were decreased. These results showed that April 7 was the optimum seeding date with the sole object of feed production of Jeju native sorghum.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Crop Science Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.142-143
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• 2004

• Journal of The Korean Society of Grassland and Forage Science
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.225-230
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• 2004

Jeju native sorghums were grown with six different planting densities ($5{\times}5cm,\;10{\times}10cm,\;15{\times}15cm,\;20{\times}20cm,\;25{\times}25cm\;and\;30{\times}30cm$) from April 3 to September 6 in 2000 in Jeju island to determine the influence to growth, yield and feed value by the planting densities. Days to heading were delayed from 66 days to 69 days as increasing of plant density. Plant height was 195.1cm at $30{\times}30cm$ plot, whereas that was 216.5cm at $10{\times}10cm$ plot, indicating that the plant was higher by the decrease of the planting density. As plant density increased, the number of leaves and steam diameter were decreased. Fresh forage yield increased from 25.4 to 61.3 MT/ha, dry matter (DM) yield from 5.8 to 16.5 MT/ha, crude protein (CP) yield from 0.4 to 1.5 MT/ha and total digestible nutrients (TDN) yield from 2.7 to 8.8 MT/ha as planting density from $30{\times}30cm\;to\;10{\times}10cm$ plot. Crude protein content increased from 7.0 to $9.0\%$, ether extract content from 1.7 to $4.4\%$, nitrogen free extract content from 36.9 to $38.4\%$ and TDN content from 46.1 to $55.5\%$ as planting density was decreased. whereas crude fiber content decreased from 43.9 to $37.1\%$ and crude ash content from 8.4 to $6.8\%$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Crop Science Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.144-145
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Crop Science Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.150-151
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• 2004