Forage yield and quality of barley-annual medic intercrops in semi-arid environments

International Journal of Plant Production

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-89

  Sadeghpour, A ^a   Jahanzad, E ^a   Lithourgidis, A S ^b   Hashemi, M ^a   Esmaeili, A ^c   Hosseini, M B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Annual medic; Barley; Crude protein; Forage; Intercropping; LER

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888213714     PISSN: 17356814     EISSN: 17358043     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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