Improving the precision of cotton performance trials conducted on highly variable soils of the southeastern USA coastal plain

Plant Breeding

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 622-627

  Campbell, B T ^a   Bauer, P J ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Fibre quality; Gossypium hirsutum; Lint yield; Nearest neighbour analysis; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 36348979219     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2007.01397.x     Document Type: Article

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