Soil nitrate concentrations used to predict nitrogen sufficiency in relation to yield in perennial grasslands

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1272-1281

  Collins, Augusta ^a   Allinson, Derek W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; NITRATES; SOILS;

PERENNIAL GRASSLAND SYSTEM; SOIL NITRATES;

NITROGEN;

POACEAE;

EID: 4544336638     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2004.1272     Document Type: Article

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