Tillage alters corn root distribution in coarse-textured soil

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 237-249

  Ball Coelho, B R ^a   Roy, R C ^a   Swanton, C J ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Maize; No tillage; Root length; Soil structure

Indexed keywords

ROOT; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TILLAGE;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032543227     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-1987(97)00086-X     Document Type: Article

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