Forage yield and competition indices of berseem clover intercropped with barley

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1749-1756

  Vasilakoglou, Ioannis ^a   Dhima, Kico ^b  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AGRICULTURE; COMPETITION; CONCRETE DAMS; CROPS; FERTILIZERS; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; PLANTS (BOTANY); ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT; SEED;

BERSEEM CLOVERS; COMPETITION INDICES; CROPPING SYSTEMS; DRY MATTERS; EQUIVALENT RATIOS; FIELD STUDIES; FORAGE QUALITIES; FORAGE YIELDS; HORDEUM VULGARE; PROTEIN PRODUCTIONS; PROTEIN YIELDS; SEEDING RATES; TOTAL PROTEINS;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM ALEXANDRINUM;

EID: 56849086534     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2008.0205     Document Type: Article

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