Dry matter yield, herbage quality and persistency of equivalent populations of perennial ryegrass with and without reduced flowering

Plant Breeding

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 425-428

  Wilkins, Pete W ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digestibility; Dry matter yield; Flowering; Introgression; Lolium perenne; Persistency; Ryegrass

Indexed keywords

LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; POACEAE;

EID: 0036808683     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0523.2002.740362.x     Document Type: Article

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