Growth and yield of rainfed wheat on the seasonally dry Aegean Islands

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 58, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 43-56

  Liakatas, A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH; WATER REGIME; WHEAT; YIELD;

AEGEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 0031393681     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00867431     Document Type: Article

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