Potassium availability indices and turfgrass performance in a calcareous sand putting green

Crop Science

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 381-389

  Woods, Micah S ^a   Ketterings, Quirine M ^a   Rossi, Frank S ^a   Petrovic, A Martin ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA VAR. PALUSTRIS; POACEAE;

EID: 32344453588     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2005.0218     Document Type: Article

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