Improving warm-season forage grasses using selection, breeding, and biotechnology

Native Warm-Season Grasses: Research Trends and Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 83-106

  Vogel, Kenneth P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Botanical characteristics; Breeding systems; Cultivars; Genetic variation; Native grasses; Reproductive characteristics; Warm season forage grasses

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EID: 85103054188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2135/cssaspecpub30.c6     Document Type: Chapter

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