Development of canopy reflectance models to predict forage quality of legume-grass mixtures

Crop Science

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1917-1926

  Biewer, Sonja ^a   Fricke, Thomas ^a   Wachendorf, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOLIUM PERENNE; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE; TRIFOLIUM REPENS; ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA;

EID: 70349197523     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2008.11.0653     Document Type: Article

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