Effect of Stage of Maturity and Cultivars on the Digestibility of Whole Maize Plant and its Morphological Fractions

Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1228-1233

  Firdous, R ^a   Gilani, A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cultivars; IVDMD; Maize; Morphological Fractions; Prediction Equations for IVDMD; Stage of Maturity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033467586     PISSN: 10112367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.1999.1228     Document Type: Article

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