Growth, cold-hardiness, protein content, and digestibility of 70 Leucaena seedlots on three sites in Texas, USA

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-179

  Felker, P ^a   Sorensson, C T ^b   Ueckert, D ^c   Jacoby, P ^d   Singer, E ^e   Ohm, R ^f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO   (Argentina)

^b SCION   (New Zealand)

^c Texas AgriLife Extension   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^e 2020 Mercantile Tower ^*  (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaf meal; Nitrogen fixing trees; Semiarid

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; HYBRID; PLANT GROWTH; UNITED STATES;

AGROFORESTRY; COLD TOLERANCE; DIGESTIBILITY; GROWTH;

UNITED STATES;

LEUCAENA; LEUCAENA CONFERTIFOLIA; LEUCAENA DIVERSIFOLIA; LEUCAENA ESCULENTA; LEUCAENA GREGGII; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; LEUCAENA PALLIDA; LEUCAENA PULVERULENTA; LEUCAENA RETUSA; LEUCOCEPHALA; LEUCOCEPHALA LEUCOCEPHALA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RETUSA;

EID: 0032455551     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006125624985     Document Type: Article

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