Intercropping annual medic (Medicago scutellata L.) with barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) may improve total forage and crude protein yield in semi-arid environment

Australian Journal of Crop Science

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1822-1828

  Sadeghpour, Amir ^a   Jahanzad, Emad ^a   Hashemi, Masoud ^a   Esmaeili, Alireza ^b   Herbert, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aggresivity; Annual medic; Barley; Intercropping; Ler; Monetary advantage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886920159     PISSN: 18352693     EISSN: 18352707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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