Switchgrass

Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 563-590

  Casler, Michael D ^a   Mitchell, Robert B ^b   Vogel, Kenneth P ^b  

^a U S DAIRY FORAGE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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