Plant environment and quality

Forage Quality, Evaluation, and Utilization

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 155-199

  Buxton, Dwayne R ^a   Fales, Steven L ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Digestibility; Forage quality; Plant development; Plant environment; Radiation quality; Shading; Solar radiation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 85140940262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/1994.foragequality.c4     Document Type: Chapter

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