Introduction in culture of new kinds of wild-growing plants. Echinochloa

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Other promising plant - little-known wild-growing Australian cereal Echinochloa. This plant was never cultivated by the person, but those to whom its biology is known, foretell that it can be transformed into the important fodder and grain culture for cultivation in areas with a droughty and semidroughty climate. Its seeds do not sprout after slight rains (probably, because of any ingibitora, containing in a seed cover); for germination strong flooding is required. such flooding causes fast germination of seeds and fast growth that gives the chance to a plant to finish all life cycle to issushenija soils. Echinochloa gives tasty nutritious grain which willingly eat a horned cattle, sheep and horses; vegetative parts of a plant also go on a forage to cattle, and from them it is possible to prepare hay. Now Echinochloa grow up only in one of internal areas of Australia, however there are no reasons which would interfere with its further distribution.