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Secale cereale

Description
Life form	grass	Physiology	multi stem
Habit	erect	Category	cereals & pseudocereals, forage/pasture, cover crop, environmental
Life span	annual	Plant attributes	grown on large scale

Ecology
	Optimal		Absolute			Optimal	Absolute
	Min	Max	Min	Max	Soil depth	medium (50-150 cm)	shallow (20-50 cm)
Temperat. requir.	15	20	3	31	Soil texture	heavy, medium, light	heavy, medium, light
Rainfall (annual)	600	1000	400	2000	Soil fertility	moderate	low
Latitude	45	-	60	70	Soil Al. tox
Altitude	---	---	-	4300	Soil salinity	low (<4 dS/m)	high (>10 dS/m))
Soil PH	5.5	6	4.5	8.2	Soil drainage	well (dry spells)	poorly (saturated >50% of year), well (dry spells), excessive (dry/moderately dry)
Light intensity	very bright	very bright	very bright	cloudy skies

Climate zone	steppe or semiarid (Bs), temperate oceanic (Do), temperate continental (Dc)	Photoperiod	short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours)
Killing temp. during rest	-18	Killing temp. early growth	-1
Abiotic toler.		Abiotic suscept.
Introduction risks.

Cultivation
			Min	Max
Product. system	large scale/commercial	Crop cycle	110	270
Cropping system	Subsystem	Companion species	Level of mechanization	Labour intensity
	sole cropping		high	low

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Uses
Main use	Detailed use	Used part
food & beverage	starch	seeds
food & beverage	vitamins	seeds
food & beverage	minerals	seeds
food & beverage	protein	seeds
animal food (feed)	vitamins	seeds
animal food (feed)	minerals	seeds
animal food (feed)	starch	seeds
animal food (feed)	protein	seeds
animal food (feed)	vitamins	entire plant
animal food (feed)	minerals	entire plant
material	paper	bark
material	fibres	bark
environmental	cover crop	entire plant
environmental	soil improvers	entire plant