Tomato crop response to short-duration legume green manures in tropical vegetable systems

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 245-253

  Thönnissen, Carmen ^a   Midmore, David J ^a   Ladha, Jagdish K ^b   Holmer, Robert J ^c   Schmidhalter, Urs ^d  

^a AVRDC THE WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^c Bukidnon Resources Co Inc (BRCI)   (Philippines)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE MAX; INDIGOFERA TINCTORIA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; VIGNA RADIATA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0343729530     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2000.922245x     Document Type: Article

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