Double-cropping sorghum for biomass

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1586-1592

  Goff, Ben M ^a   Moore, Kenneth J ^a   Fales, Steven L ^a   Heaton, Emily A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; BIOMASS YIELD; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CROPPING SYSTEMS; DRY MATTER PRODUCTION; DRY MATTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; ETHANOL YIELD; GENETIC BACKGROUNDS; GENOTYPIC EFFECTS; POTENTIAL LOSS; SORGHUM BICOLOR (L.) MOENCH;

BIOMASS; ETHANOL;

CROPS;

SORGHUM BICOLOR; TRITICOSECALE; TRITICOSECALE WITTMACK;

EID: 79951609511     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2010.0209     Document Type: Article

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