Obligatory summer-dormant cool-season perennial grasses for semiarid environments of the southern Great Plains

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 147-154

  Malinowski, D P ^a   Zuo, H ^b   Kramp, B A ^a   Muir, J P ^c   Pinchak, W E ^a  

^a TAMU Res and Ext Cent   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

^c TAMU Res and Ext Cent   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; PRODUCTIVITY;

GRASSLANDS; GRAZING SEASON; SUMMER CULTIVARS; WHEAT PASTURES;

CULTIVATION;

BIOMASS; CULTIVATION; DROUGHT; FORAGE; PRODUCTIVITY;

BROMUS; BROMUS WILDENOWII; FESTUCA; FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM COENOPHIALUM; PHALARIS; PHALARIS AQUATICA; POACEAE; SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 13544264563     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2005.0147     Document Type: Article

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