Seasonal variation in current season and dead biomass of chrysopogon aucheri (Boiss) Stapf. and Cymbopogon jwarancusa (Jones) Schult. in highland Balochistan, Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 519-527

  Ahmad, Sarfraz ^a   Islam, Muhammad ^a   Bano, Gul ^b   Aslam, Sohail ^a   Koukab, Shaista ^a  

^a Arid Zone Research Centre   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALOCHISTAN   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRYSOPOGON AUCHERI; CYMBOPOGON; CYMBOPOGON JWARANCUSA; POACEAE;

EID: 67649826071     PISSN: 05563321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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