Lasiurus scindicus seed

LATIN NAME: Lasiurus scindicus

COMMON NAME: Sind Sain

Sind sain is the fine, hardy, tufted grass of the dry, sandy plains, and its fine, blue-green, wiry leaves and the slender, nodding flower heads have made it a valuable pasture grass of the dry regions for a very long time. The low, tufted grass carries the fine, blue-green, wiry leaves, and the slender, nodding, spike-like flower heads rise above them through the warm season, to be followed by the fine, pale grains. The grass is a dependable, generous fodder plant of the dry, sandy ground, and it is one of the most useful grasses of the warm, arid regions. It is a plant of the sun-baked, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

Sind sain has a steady and growing place in the plant science, and the grass has been studied for its fine, wiry leaves and its place among the pasture grasses of the dry regions. The way the tufted grass stands up to the heat and the dry spells has been looked into, and the plant keeps showing up in the work on the drought-tolerant fodder grasses and the range plants of the arid world. The fine, blue-green leaves and the slender, nodding flower heads have also made it a fine garden grass, and it is a regular subject of the studies of the dryland pasture plants and the hardy tufted grasses.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

Sind sain is grown for the fine, blue-green leaves and the valuable fodder. The tufted grass is a dependable, generous pasture plant of the dry, sandy ground, and it keeps the flocks of the dry regions fed through the long, hot season. The fine, wiry leaves and the nodding flower heads also give it a place in the dryland garden and the erosion-control planting, holding the loose, sandy ground. It has been written up in the agricultural and the ecological papers for its drought-tolerant, soil-holding ways, and it is a fine, hardy grass of the sun-baked, well-drained garden.

Sind sain is one of the most useful of the dryland pasture grasses, and the fine, blue-green, wiry tufts keep the flocks of the dry regions fed through the long, hot season. The grass holds the loose, sandy ground well, and the slender, nodding flower heads give it a fine, fresh look through the warm months.

In the right spot the sind sain is a fine, dependable, long-lived grass, and it asks for very little beyond the sun and the well-drained ground. The fine, blue-green, wiry tufts keep their fresh look through the warm season, and the slender, nodding flower heads rise above them in the late summer.

To grow the sind sain from seed, scatter the fine seeds thinly over moist trays of free-draining soil and press them in lightly, keep them in a bright, warm, open spot and water gently. The seedlings appear within a couple of weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun and the well-drained ground, the fine, blue-green, wiry tufts will be there through the warm season.

Lasiurus scindicus Sewan Grass

Sewan grass (Lasiurus scindicus), a popular pastoral species, is getting some much-needed attention as mechanization, modernity in agriculture, and illicit grazing pose severe risks to biodiversity conservation in arid and semi-arid areas. It is found mainly in wastelands, dunes, hammocks, and sandy plains but less popular for cultivation in farmer’s fields. Sewan grass has many features like good nutritional value, soil binder, tolerance to high temperature, high digestibility and palatability, and prolonged drought conditions contributed greatly towards its success as a potential forage species in arid environments. It contains significant quantities of crude fibres, lignin, minerals and crude protein, and varies in the proportion of their tissue that can be digested by ruminants. Most research focuses on the species as a forage plant and agronomical practices and is largely published in agricultural and grey literature. Meanwhile, there is a lack of information about breeding strategies and seed production technologies. Therefore, here we present a comprehensive review about agronomic management, breeding, and seed production strategies systematically that will aid in the management of sewan grass now and into the future.