Establishment and seedling growth of big bluestem and switchgrass populations divergently selected for seedling tiller number

Crop Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1434-1440

  Smart, Alexander J ^a   Moser, Lowell E ^b   Vogel, Kenneth P ^b  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROPOGON; ANDROPOGON GERARDII; PANICUM; PANICUM VIRGATUM; POACEAE;

EID: 0038141887     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2003.1434     Document Type: Article

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