Are seeding densities an opportunity to increase grain yield of winter wheat in a living mulch of white clover?

Field Crops Research

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 163-171

  Hiltbrunner, J ^a   Streit, B ^a   Liedgens, M ^b  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Living mulch; Organic farming; Trifolium repens L.; Triticum aestivum L.; White clover; Winter wheat; Yield components

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

LIVING MULCH; ORGANIC FARMING; TRIFOLIUM REPENS L.; TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.; WHITE CLOVER; WINTER WHEAT; YIELD COMPONENTS;

CROPS;

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CROP YIELD; CROPPING PRACTICE; LEGUME; MULCHING; ORGANIC FARMING; PROTEIN; SEEDING; WHEAT;

FARM CROPS; PLANTS; SEEDS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

TRIFOLIUM REPENS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 34248547658     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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