Morphological characteristics of big bluestem and switehgrass plants divergently selected for seedling tiller number

Crop Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 607-613

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

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Keim Hall Univ of Nebraska Lincoln   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROPOGON; ANDROPOGON GERARDII; PANICUM; PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 1542290048     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2004.6070     Document Type: Article

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