Kikuyu grass: A valuable salt-tolerant fodder grass

Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis

Volumn 37, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 1269-1279

  Radhakrishnan, Mathangi ^a   Waisel, Yoav ^a   Sternberg, Marcelo ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pennisetum clandestinum; Proline; Salinity; Sodium chloride

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FODDER; GRASS; GROUND COVER; GROWTH RATE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RECLAIMED LAND; REGENERATION; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SALINIZATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMALIA; PENNISETUM; PENNISETUM CLANDESTINUM; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM;

EID: 33745323207     PISSN: 00103624     EISSN: 15322416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00103620600623590     Document Type: Article

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