Modeling Differential Growth in Switchgrass Cultivars Across the Central and Southern Great Plains

Bioenergy Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1165-1173

  Behrman, Kathrine D ^a   Keitt, Timothy H ^b   Kiniry, James R ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

ALMANAC model; Ecotypes; Local adaptation; Panicum virgatum; Photoperiod

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CLIMATE MODELS; CULTIVATION; LANDFORMS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LOCATION;

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; ECOTYPES; LIGHT EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MAXIMUM LEAF AREA INDEX; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PHOTOPERIOD; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 84912090940     PISSN: 19391234     EISSN: 19391242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12155-014-9450-8     Document Type: Article

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