Response of maize varieties to transplanting in Striga-infested fields

Weed Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 392-396

  Oswald, Andreas ^a   Ransom, Joel K ^b  

^a WARDA ^*  (Côte d’Ivoire)

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

Author keywords

Parasitic weeds

Indexed keywords

CROP YIELD; MAIZE; SEEDLING; TRANSPLANTATION; WEED;

STRIGA; STRIGA ASIATICA; STRIGA HERMONTHICA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0742280128     PISSN: 00431745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1614/0043-1745(2002)050[0392:ROMVTT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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