Nutritive quality of four perennial grasses as affected by species, cultivar, maturity, and plant tissue

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1400-1409

  Karn, J F ^a   Berdahl, J D ^a   Frank, A B ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CULTIVATION; NUTRITION; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

AGRONOMIC TRAITS; NEUTRAL DETERGENT FIBER (NDF); NUTRITIVE QUALITY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGRONOMY; CULTIVATION; GRASSES; NUTRITION; PLANT TISSUES; VARIETIES;

AGROPYRON; AGROPYRON CRISTATUM; AGROPYRON DESERTORUM; BROMUS; BROMUS INERMIS; BROMUS SECALINUS; PASCOPYRUM SMITHII; POACEAE; THINOPYRUM INTERMEDIUM;

EID: 33751089816     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2005.0293     Document Type: Article

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