Quality of grass silage infected with spores of Clostridium tyrobutyricum

Grass and Forage Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 88-95

  Rammer, Chri ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM TYROBUTYRICUM; SILO;

EID: 0030428663     PISSN: 01425242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2494.1996.tb02041.x     Document Type: Article

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