Performance of perennial cool-season forage grasses in diverse soil moisture environments, southern High Plains, USA

Crop Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 909-915

  Lauriault, L M ^a   Kirksey, R E ^a   VanLeeuwen, D M ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Agric Biometrics Ser   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOPECURUS ARUNDINACEUS; ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS; BROMUS CATHARTICUS; BROMUS INERMIS; BROMUS RIPARIUS; BROMUS SECALINUS; BROMUS STAMINEUS; DACTYLIS; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA; ELYMUS HOFFMANNII; ELYTRIGIA; FESTUCA; LEYMUS ANGUSTUS; LEYMUS TRITICOIDES; PASCOPYRUM SMITHII; PHALARIS; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA; PHRAGMITES; POACEAE; PSATHYROSTACHYS JUNCEA; PSEUDOROEGNERIA SPICATA; SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS; SCHEDONORUS PRATENSIS; THINOPYRUM ELONGATUM; THINOPYRUM INTERMEDIUM;

EID: 18744414806     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2004.0280     Document Type: Article

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