Genetic study of the forage nutritive value in the lancaster variety of maize

Maydica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 227-234

  Almirall, A ^a   Casanas F ^a   Bosch, L ^a   Sanchez, E ^a   Perez, A ^b   Nuez, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Digestibility of the cell wall content; Digestibility of the dry matter; Forage maize; Neutral detergent fiber; Total digestible dry matter yield

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030470265     PISSN: 00256153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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