Transplanting maize and sorghum reduces Striga hermonthica damage

Weed Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 346-353

  Oswald, Andreas ^a   Ransom, Joel K ^b   Kroschel, Jürgen ^c   Sauerborn, Joachim ^d  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Integrated weed management; Parasitic weeds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037919676     PISSN: 00431745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1614/0043-1745(2001)049[0346:TMASRS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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