Performance of annual and perennial biofuel crops: Nutrient removal during the first two years

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 798-805

  Propheter, Jonathan L ^a   Staggenborg, Scott ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS YIELD; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); CROP YIELD; GLYCINE MAX; GRASS ESTABLISHMENT; LIGNO-CELLULOSIC FUELS; MISCANTHUS; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; NUTRIENT REMOVAL; PERENNIAL GRASS; SOIL TESTS; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SWITCHGRASS; TOTAL BIOMASS; YIELD INCREASE;

CROPS; MINING; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOIL TESTING;

NUTRIENTS;

ANDROPOGON; ANDROPOGON GERARDII; GLYCINE MAX; MISCANTHUS; PANICUM VIRGATUM; POACEAE; SORGHUM BICOLOR; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77749327420     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2009.0462     Document Type: Article

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