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Library Coronilla juncea is both a nutritive fodder shrub and useful in the rehabilitation of abandoned Mediterranean marginal farmland

Coronilla juncea is both a nutritive fodder shrub and useful in the rehabilitation of abandoned Mediterranean marginal farmland

Coronilla juncea is both a nutritive fodder shrub and useful in the rehabilitation of abandoned Mediterranean marginal farmland

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Date of publication
December 2002
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ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201400062974
Pages
381-392

Coronilla juncea is a leguminous shrub native to semi-arid regions of the Mediterranean Basin, particularly south-eastern Spain, and is browsed by livestock such as sheep and goats. We provide here information about this source of forage: allometric regression equations (phytovolume vs. total and forage phytomass), nutritive value and seed germination. The regression equations calculated were highly significant (r2= 0·86 for volume/total phytomass and 0·93 for volume/forage phytomass, p

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Robles, A.B.
Allegretti, L.I.
Passera, C.B.

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