The role of potassium in sustaining yields in a long-term rice-wheat experiment in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of Nepal

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 240-247

  Regmi, A P ^a   Ladha, J K ^a   Pasuquin, E ^a   Pathak, H ^a   Hobbs, P R ^b   Shrestha, L L ^c   Gharti, D B ^c   Duveiller, E ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^b International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Nepal   (Nepal)

^c NEPAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Helminthosporium leaf blight; Leaf colour chart; Long term soil fertility experiment; Organic manure; Rice wheat system

Indexed keywords

CROP YIELD; MANURE; ORGANIC MATTER; POTASSIUM; RICE; SOIL FERTILITY; WHEAT;

NEPAL;

HELMINTHOSPORIUM; HYPHOMYCETES; ORYZA SATIVA; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0036927077     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-002-0525-x     Document Type: Article

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