Additional C4 turf and forage grasses

Warm-Season (C4) Grasses

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1081-1119

  Hatch, Stephan L ^a   White, Richard H ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centipedegrass; Cogongrass; Forage grasses; Jaraguagrass; Zoysiagrass

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029573012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr45.c34     Document Type: Chapter

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