Paper Presented at International Workshop on Increasing Wheat Yield Potential, CIMMYT, Obregon, Mexico, 20-24 March 2006: Use of spatial analyses for global characterization of wheat-based production systems

Journal of Agricultural Science

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-125

  Hodson, D P ^a   White, J W ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^b US ARID LAND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; CROPPING PRACTICE; DEVELOPING WORLD; GIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

ASIA; CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; OBREGON; SONORA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33847360075     PISSN: 00218596     EISSN: 14695146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021859607006855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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