Quality of eastern gamagrass compared with switchgrass and flaccidgrass when preserved as hay

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 261-269

  Burns, J C ^a,b   Fisher, D S ^a,b   Pond, K R ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C4 grasses; Digestibility; Eastern gamagrass; Intake; N retention

Indexed keywords

PANICUM VIRGATUM; PENNISETUM FLACCIDUM; TRIPSACUM DACTYLOIDES;

EID: 0030026151     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0925-5214(95)00039-9     Document Type: Article

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