Effect of crowding stress on dry matter accumulation and harvest index in maize

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 930-937

  Tollenaar, Matthijs ^a   Deen, William ^a   Echarte, Laura ^a   Liu, Weidong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); HARVESTING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CROP CANOPY; CROWDING STRESS; HARVEST INDEX; PLANT-EMERGENCE VARIABILITY;

CROPS;

FARM CROPS; HARVESTING; PLANTS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33746520123     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2005.0336     Document Type: Article

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