Effects of Tillage on Along-Row Variability of Wheat and Maize Biomass

Plant Production Science

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 295-301

  Nakamoto, Tomomi ^a   Yamagishi, Junko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Minimum tillage; Precision farming; Semivariogram; Spatial dependence

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0345800806     PISSN: 1343943X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1626/pps.6.295     Document Type: Article

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