Observations on effect of seeding pattern on water-use efficiency of durum wheat in semi-arid areas of Morocco

Field Crops Research

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 175-179

  Karrou, Mohammed ^a  

^a Centre Regional de la Recherche Agronomique de Settat   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Grain yield; Plant density; Row spacing

Indexed keywords

CROP PRODUCTION; SEEDING; WATER USE; WHEAT; YIELD;

MOROCCO;

TRITICUM TURGIDUM;

EID: 0032430891     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4290(98)00118-X     Document Type: Article

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