Morphological, agronomic and forage quality diversity of the Flemingia macrophylla world collection

Field Crops Research

Volumn 96, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 387-406

  Andersson, M S ^a,b,c   Schultze Kraft, R ^b   Peters, M ^a   Hincapie B ^a   Lascano, C E ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c International Plant Genetic Resources Institute IPGRI   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Agronomic evaluation; Dry season feed; Fabaceae; Grazing trial; Morphological characterization; Morphotypes; Multipurpose legumes; Palatability; Papilionoideae; Taxonomy; Tropical legumes

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; PRODUCTIVITY; PROTEINS; SOILS;

AGRONOMIC EVALUATION; DRY SEASON FEED; FABACEAE; GRAZING TRIAL; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; MORPHOTYPES; MULTIPURPOSE LEGUMES; PALATABILITY; PAPILIONOIDEAE; TAXONOMY;

AGRONOMY;

AGRONOMY; FORAGE; GRAZING; MORPHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; YIELD;

FABACEAE; FLEMINGIA; FLEMINGIA MACROPHYLLA; PAPILIONOIDEAE;

EID: 32644461995     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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