Head and stover contribution to digestible dry matter yield on grain and dual-purpose sorghum crop

Australian Journal of Crop Science

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-122

  Torrecillas, M ^a   Cantamutto, M A ^b   Bertoia, L M ^a  

^a Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Forage quality; Forage yield; Hybrid; Maturity stage; Whole plant forage

Indexed keywords

SORGHUM BICOLOR BICOLOR;

EID: 79952142351     PISSN: 18352693     EISSN: 18352707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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