Five decades of alfalfa cultivar improvement: impact on forage yield, persistence, and nutritive value

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Crop Science

• Publication date

  2006-03-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Biology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2135/CROPSCI2005.08-0236
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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