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Original Articles

A comparison of pod and seed characteristics, nutritive value, digestibility and seed survival in cultivars from different Medicago species fed to sheep

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Pages 11-15 | Received 06 Oct 1993, Accepted 03 Mar 1995, Published online: 29 Oct 2010

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