Soybean canopy development as affected by population density and intercropping with corn: Fractal analysis in comparison with other quantitative approaches

Crop Science

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1784-1791

  Foroutan pour, Kayhan ^a   Dutilleul, Pierre ^a   Smith, Donald L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; INTERCROPPING; PLANT HEIGHT; POPULATION DENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ZEA MAYS;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033371351     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci1999.3961784x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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