Soil physical properties and potato yield in no-till, subsurface-till, and conventional-till systems

HortTechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 240-247

  Mundy, Charlotte ^a   Creamer, Nancy G ^a   Crozier, Carl R ^a   Wilson, L George ^a   Morse, Ronald D ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulk density; Cone index; Cover crop; Soil moisture; Solanum tuberosum; Sorghum bicolor x S. sudanense

Indexed keywords

PIPERACEAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM SUDANENSE; SORGHUM X DRUMMONDII; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0032928679     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/horttech.9.2.240     Document Type: Article

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