Morphology of germinating and emerging warm-season grass seedlings

Native Warm-Season Grasses: Research Trends and Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 35-47

  Moser, Lowell E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging warm season grass seedlings; Germination; Grass seedling development; Grass seedling morphology; Morphological development; Pre emergent development; Seeding management decisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103012381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2135/cssaspecpub30.c3     Document Type: Chapter

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