Integrating Genetics, Environment, and Management to Minimize Animal Toxicoses

Neotyphodium in Cool-Season Grasses

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 305-324

  Stuedemann, John A ^a   Seman, Dwight H ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cows; Festuca arundinacea; Necrosis; Nitrogen fertilization; Urinary alkaloid analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749181689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470384916.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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