Effect of genotype, nitrogen, plant density, and row spacing on the area-per-leaf profile in maize

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 94-99

  Valentinuz, Oscar R ^a,b   Tollenaar, Matthijs ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ENTRE RÍOS   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AREA-PER-LEAF PROFILE; BELL-SHAPED FUNCTIONS; PLANT DENSITY; ROW SPACING;

CROPS;

CORN; GENOTYPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 31944448599     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2005.0111     Document Type: Article

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