Optimizing soybean plant population for a short-season production system in the southern USA

Crop Science

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 757-764

  Ball, Rosalind A ^a   Purcell, Larry C ^a   Vories, Earl D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CROP MANAGEMENT; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; GROWTH RATE; LIGHT INTENSITY; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT POPULATION; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 0034126607     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2000.403757x     Document Type: Article

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