This document summarizes research on developing dual-purpose maize hybrids in rain-fed systems. It discusses using conventional and molecular breeding to improve maize grain and stover traits. Genomic selection methods were able to accurately predict the in vitro dry matter digestibility and metabolizable energy of maize lines. Testing showed advanced maize breeding lines had higher stover quality than existing sorghum varieties. However, transporting maize stover is less cost-effective than sorghum due to lower bulk density. The research concludes that work is needed along the entire value chain from discovery to delivery.
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Dual purpose maize hybrids for livestock feed
1. Discovery to delivery: Livestock and Fish
– Maize CRP Collaboration on dual
purpose maize hybrids
Michael Blümmel, PH Zaidi, M Vinayan and Babu Raman
ILRI Institute Planning Meeting
4-7 October 2016
2. Rationale
Maize replaces sorghum in many rain-fed systems
Concerns if maize can meet the typical dual purpose demand
expected from sorghum
Approaches
Use conventional and molecular breeding to concomitantly
improve maize grain and stover traits
Address maize stover use in the production system with dairy
producers, fodder traders, feed processors etc.
4. Sample ID IVOMD - Predicted IVOMD Measured
DH_9_157 High IVOMD and ME 57.1
DH_3_33 High IVOMD and ME 56.7
DH_3_63 High IVOMD and ME 55.8
DH_9_15 High IVOMD and ME 55.7
DH_8_4 High IVOMD and ME 55.6
DH_3_149 High IVOMD and ME 55.5
DH_3_24 High IVOMD and ME 55.4
DH_6_1 Low IVOMD and ME 55.4
DH_3_10 High IVOMD and ME 55.0
DH_3_21 High IVOMD and ME 54.9
DH_3_138 High IVOMD and ME 54.6
DH_3_35 High IVOMD and ME 54.5
DH_3_61 High ME 54.4
DH_3_83 High IVOMD and ME 54.1
DH_9_165 High IVOMD 53.6
DH_9_134 High IVOMD 53.6
DH_9_153 High IVOMD and ME 53.5
DH_3_47 High IVOMD and ME 53.4
DH_3_62 High IVOMD and ME 53.4
DH_3_87 High IVOMD and ME 53.4
DH_3_82 High IVOMD 53.3
Predicting performance of DH lines for fodder quality
HTMA - GS
Pred.
Accuracy
IVOMD 0.44
ME 0.45
5. 4 5 .0 4 7 .5 5 0 .0 5 2 .5 5 5 .0 5 7 .5 6 0 .0
2 .8
3 .0
3 .2
3 .4
3 .6
3 .8
4 .0
4 .2
S to v e r in v itro digestibility (% )
Stoverprice(IR/kgDM)
B re e d in g a d v a n c e in d u a l p u rp o s e m a iz e s to v e r fo d d e r q u a lity
re la tiv e to d iffe re n t s o rg h u m s to v e r tra d e d in ra in fe d
In d ia in th e p a s t d e c a d e
L o w q u a lity
s o rg h u m sto ve r
H ig h q u a lity
s o rg h u m sto ve r
M e a n IV O M D (ra n g e 5 5 .2 to 5 7 .9 % )
o f 1 1 a d v a n c e d d u a l p u rp o s e m a ize
b re e d in g lin e s g e n e ra te d
d u rin g th e p ro je c ts
M e a n IV O M D (ra n g e 5 3 .6 to 5 6 .0 % )
o f 1 1 e xp e rim e n ta l h e a t to le ra n t d u a l
p u rp o s e m a iz e h y b rid s g e n e ra te d
d u rin g th e p ro je c ts
Blümmel et al., 2016
6. Is maize stover necessarily inferior to sorghum stover?
Dairy buffalo in peninsular India respond
Parameter Maize
stover
Sorghum
stover1
Stover offered (kg/d) 9.5 9.5
Conc. mixture offered (kg/d) 6.50 6.50
Milk yield (kg/d) 9.36 8.87
Income through sale of milk (Rs./d) 262.1 248.4
Cost per kg milk (Rs/kg) 14.5 18.2
1 Farmer paid 6 to 6.5 Rs/kg sorghum stover
7. However: transport costs favour sorghum
over maize stover
One DCM truck transports 2.4 tons of un-chopped sorghum stover but only 1 ton of un-chopped
maize stover. Chopping decreases this ratio to 1.5
8. Conclusions
We, with partners, need to work concomitantly along all key entry
points in value chains
At least one partner needs to have sufficient understanding of
key areas related around discovery to delivery
Perhaps one of CGs real comparative advantages
9. CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
livestockfish.cgiar.org
The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in
sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world.
This presentation is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
The Program thanks all donors and organizations who globally supported its work through their contributions to the CGIAR
system.
Editor's Notes
Four Topics: 1) demand as reflected by scenarios and in practice by fodder marketing, 2) what impact would it have if we address CR, 3) how to do it, 4) where to go
The simplicity of the work-flow projected here masks the magnitude of shift it represents, when implemented successfully. I believe the GS approach and the specific genomic region based approaches can go hand in hand, complementing each other.
Four Topics: 1) demand as reflected by scenarios and in practice by fodder marketing, 2) what impact would it have if we address CR, 3) how to do it, 4) where to go