Germination characteristics and seedling emergence of switchgrass with different agricultural practices under arid conditions in China

Crop Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2341-2350

  Fan, Jing Wei ^a   Du, Yan Lei ^a   Turner, Neil C ^b   Li, Feng Min ^a   He, Jin ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 84864670124     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: 14350653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2011.11.0603     Document Type: Article

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