Forage quality of tall fescue across an irrigation gradient

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1337-1343

  Asay, Kay H ^a   Jensen, Kevin B ^a   Waldron, Blair L ^a   Han, Guodong ^a   Johnson, Douglas A ^a   Monaco, Thomas A ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; HARVESTING; IRRIGATION; PROTEINS; WATER LEVELS;

FORAGE QUALITY;

AGRONOMY;

FESTUCA; FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; FUNGI; JONES; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM COENOPHIALUM; POACEAE; SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS;

EID: 0036852532     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2002.1337     Document Type: Article

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