Sowing date or transplanting as components for integrated Striga hermonthica control in grain-cereal crops?

Crop Protection

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 379-386

  Gbèhounou, Gualbert ^a   Adango, Etienne ^a   Hinvi, Jonas Cyrille ^a   Nonfon, Richard ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DES RECHERCHES AGRICOLES DU BÉNIN   (Benin)

Author keywords

Cereal crops; Dying off; Secondary dormancy; Sowing date; Striga hermonthica; Transplanting

Indexed keywords

CEREAL; DORMANCY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; SOWING; TRANSPLANTATION; WEED CONTROL;

STRIGA; STRIGA ASIATICA; STRIGA HERMONTHICA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 1642292602     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2003.09.014     Document Type: Article

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