Potato yield and quality response to subsoil tillage and compaction

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-90

  Copas, Michael E ^a   Bussan, Alvin J ^a   Drilias, Michael J ^a   Wolkowski, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; COMPACTION; GLUCOSE; QUALITY CONTROL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MECHANICS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGARS;

COMPACTED SOILS; CONE INDICES; DISEASE MANAGEMENTS; INTERNAL QUALITIES; POTATO YIELDS; QUALITY FACTORS; ROOT GROWTHS; SOIL COMPACTIONS; SOIL RESPONSES; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SUBSOIL TILLAGES; SUCROSE CONCENTRATIONS; SUGAR CONCENTRATIONS; TUBER DEFECTS; VEGETABLE CROPS; WISCONSIN;

SOILS;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 58149504923     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2007.0031     Document Type: Article

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