Intake and digestion of 'Jesup' tall fescue hays with a novel fungal endophyte, without an endophyte, or with a wild-type endophyte

Crop Science

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 216-223

  Burns, J C ^a   Fisher, D S ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 32344449661     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2005.04-0040     Document Type: Article

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