Silage yield and nutritive value of millet–soybean intercrops as influenced by nitrogen application

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1993-2000

  Jahanzad, E ^a   Sadeghpour, A ^b   Hosseini, M B ^c   Barker, A V ^a   Hashemi, M ^a   Zandvakili, O R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Cornell Univ ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

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EID: 84907838531     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj13.0542     Document Type: Article

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