Nutritive value of forage shrubs: Bituminaria bituminosa, Rumex lunaria, Acacia salicina, Cassia sturtii and Adenocorpus foliosus

Small Ruminant Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 13-18

  Ventura, M R ^a   Castanon J I R ^a   Pieltain, M C ^a   Flores, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acacia; Adenocarpus; Bituminaria; Cassia; Legume shrubs; Nutritive value; Rumex

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; ADENOCARPUS; BITUMINARIA; BITUMINARIA BITUMINOSA; CASSIA; CASSIA STURTII; LUNARIA; RUMEX; SENNA;

EID: 1542380778     PISSN: 09214488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-4488(03)00225-6     Document Type: Article

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