Impact of tillage and banded starter fertilizer on maize root growth in the top 25 centimeters of the soil

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 674-683

  Qin, Ruijun ^a,c   Stamp, Peter ^a   Richner, Walter ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CLIMATOLOGY; CROPS; SOILS;

CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE (CT); MEAN ROOT DIAMETER (MD);

FERTILIZERS;

AGRONOMY; FARM CROPS; FERTILIZERS; METEOROLOGY; SOIL;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33645086510     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2004.0059     Document Type: Article

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