Assessing N fertiliser requirements and the reliability of different recommendation systems

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 700, Issue , 2006, Pages 35-48

  Burns, I G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Look up tables; N balance sheet method; N recommendations; N response curves; Nmin method; Simulation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745104439     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2006.700.2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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