Yield gaps, nutrient use efficiencies and response to fertilisers by maize across heterogeneous smallholder farms of western Kenya

Plant and Soil

Volumn 313, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 19-37

  Tittonell, P ^a,b,d   Vanlauwe, B ^b   Corbeels, M ^b,c   Giller, K E ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture TSBF CIAT   (Kenya)

^c CIRAD   (France)

^d Research Unit Agroecology and Sustainable intensification of Annual Crops   (France)

Author keywords

K use efficiency; N use efficiency; P use efficiency; QUEFTS model; Soil fertility gradients; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GERMPLASM; HETEROGENEITY; MAIZE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL QUALITY; YIELD RESPONSE;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 56349101016     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-008-9676-3     Document Type: Article

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