Production practices improve grain sorghum and pearl millet competitiveness with weeds

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 227-232

  Limon Ortega, Augustin ^a   Mason, Stephen C ^a   Martin, Alex R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP ROW SPACING; CROP WEED COMPETITION; FERTILIZER EFFECT; HYBRID; MAGNESIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NITROGEN; SORGHUM BICOLOR; WEED CONTROL;

ABUTILON THEOPHRASTI; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; SETARIA;

EID: 0031803693     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj1998.00021962009000020020x     Document Type: Article

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