Alfalfa biomass production and quality during cutting regrowth cycle under elevated CO2

Biomass Crops: Production, Energy and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 121-137

  Erice, Gorka ^a,b   Irigoyen, Juan José ^a,b   Sánchez Díaz, Manuel ^a,b  

^a Unidad asociada CIBIR CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

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