Wheat quality in organic and conventional farming: Results of a 21 year field experiment

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1826-1835

  Mäder, Paul ^a   Hahn, Diana ^a,b   Dubois, David ^c   Gunst, Lucie ^c   Alföldi, Thomas ^a   Bergmann, Hans ^b   Oehme, Michael ^d   Amadò, Renato ^e   Schneider, Hanna ^e   Graf, Ursula ^f   Velimirov, Alberta ^g,h   Fließbach, Andreas ^a   Niggli, Urs ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FIBL   (Switzerland)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f Research Institute of Vital Quality   (Switzerland)

^g LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^h FiBL Austria   (Austria)

Author keywords

Conventional farming; Food preference tests; Mycotoxins; Organic farming; Wheat constituents; Wheat quality

Indexed keywords

RATTUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 34547102730     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.2866     Document Type: Article

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