Response of wheat genotypes to sowing date and boron fertilization aimed at controlling sterility in a rice-wheat rotation in Nepal

Plant and Soil

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 249-256

  Subedi, K D ^a,b   Budhathoki, C B ^a   Subedi, M ^a   Yubak, D G C ^a  

^a Lumle Agricultural Research Centre Nepal   (Nepal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boron; Rice wheat rotation; Sterility; Time of sowing; Triticum aestivum; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030991290     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004202725382     Document Type: Article

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