The use of cover crops in cereal-based cropping systems to control nitrate leaching in SE England

Plant and Soil

Volumn 273, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 355-373

  Macdonald, A J ^a   Poulton, P R ^a   Howe, M T ^a   Goulding, K W T ^a   Powlson, D S ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bare fallow; Cover crops; N mineralization; Spring barley; Winter barley

Indexed keywords

COVER CROP; CROPPING PRACTICE; LEACHING; NITRATE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

BRASSICA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; LOLIUM; PHACELIA; SECALE CEREALE; SINAPIS ALBA;

EID: 21244464813     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-005-0193-3     Document Type: Article

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