Yield components of pearl millet and grain sorghum across environments in the central Great Plains

Crop Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2138-2145

  Maman, Nouri ^a   Mason, Stephen C ^a   Lyon, Drew J ^a   Dhungana, Prabhakar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENNISETUM; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM BICOLOR BICOLOR;

EID: 8444220557     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2004.2138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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