Cutting management of native warm-season perennial grasses: Morphological and physiological responses

Native Warm-Season Grasses: Research Trends and Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 133-146

  Sanderson, Matt A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Big bluestem; Cutting management; Eastern gamagrass; Harvest management strategies; Indiangrass; Morphological responses; Native warm season perennial grasses; Physiological responses; Switchgrass

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103001832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2135/cssaspecpub30.c9     Document Type: Chapter

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