Can yields of lowland rice resume the increases that they showed in the 1980s?

Plant Production Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-274

  Horie, Takeshi ^a   Shiraiwa, Tatsuhiko ^a   Homma, Koki ^a   Katsura, Keisuke ^a   Maeda, Shuhei ^a   Yoshida, Hiroe ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerobic culture; Controlled release fertilizers; Early transplanting; Hybrids; Plant density; SRI

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844485874     PISSN: 1343943X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1626/pps.8.259     Document Type: Review

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