Relationships between emergence and soil water content for perennial cool-season grasses native to Iran

Crop Science

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 544-553

  Gazanchian, Ali ^a   Khosh Kholgh Sima, Nayer A ^b   Malboobi, Mohamad A ^c   Majidi Heravan, Eslam ^b  

^a Khorasan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Centre Iran   (Iran)

^b AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF IRAN ABRII   (Iran)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROPYRON; BROMUS; DACTYLIS; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA; ELYMUS; FESTUCA; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; POACEAE; SECALE;

EID: 33644983015     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2005.04-0357     Document Type: Article

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