Studying Varieties and Relationships of Yield and Quality Traits in Tall Wheatgrass (Agropyron elongatum) under Two Cutting Management Procedures
Subject Areas : Relationship between Animal and RangelandAta Elmi 1 , Ali Ashraf Jafari 2 , Amin Farnia 3 , Mohammad Bakhtiari 4
1 - Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd Branch, Boroujerd
2 - Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Tehran,
3 - Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd Branch, Boroujerd
4 - Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Tehran
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