Effect of tillage and nitrogen rate on corn yield and nitrogen and phosphorus uptake in a corn-soybean rotation

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1548-1558

  Al Kaisi, Mahdi ^a   Kwaw Mensah, David ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; GROWTH KINETICS; PHOSPHORUS; SEED; SOILS;

CORN SOYBEAN ROTATION; TILLAGE SYSTEMS;

NITROGEN;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 36448984314     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agroni2007.0012     Document Type: Article

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