%0 Journal Article %T Caracter¨ªsticas produtivas, estruturais e bromatol¨®gicas dos capins Tifton 85 e Piat£¿ e do feij£¿o-guandu cv. Super N, em cultivo singular ou em associa£¿£¿o %A Neres %A Marcela Abbado %A Castagnara %A Deise Dalazen %A Silva %A Francieli Batista %A Oliveira %A Paulo S¨¦rgio Rabello de %A Mesquita %A Eduardo Eust¨¢quio %A Bernardi %A Taimara Carla %A Guarianti %A Alcir Jo£¿o %A Vogt %A Alex S¨¦rgio Lazaretti %J Ci¨ºncia Rural %D 2012 %I Universidade Federal de Santa Maria %R 10.1590/S0103-84782012000500017 %X this trial aimed at evaluating characteristics as: production, structural and nutritional requirements of tifton 85 and piat£¿ grasses and pigeonpea in single or intercropped tillage, with and without nitrogen application. the experimental plot in randomized blocks with plots subdivided through time, with 7 treatments in the main plots and three periods of evaluation on subplots with four replications. the studied treatments were: cajanus cajan cv. super n (pigeonpea), brachiaria brizantha cv. single piat£¿ without application of nitrogen (n); b. brizantha cv. piat£¿ in association with pigeonpea; b. brizantha cv. single piat£¿ with application of n (150kg ha-1); cynodon sp. tifton 85 in a single crop without application of n; tifton 85 in association with pigeonpea and tifton 85 plus an application of n (150kg ha-1) and three cycles of evaluations. the association of tifton 85 and piat£¿ grasses with pigeonpea provided forage production like nitrogen fertilizer and increase crude protein content and a reduction on neutral detergent fiber contents. tifton grass was less tolerant to shading from pigeonpea. %K brachiaria %K crude protein %K cynodon %K nitrogen. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-84782012000500017&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en