The importance of light quality in crop-weed competition

Weed Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 217-224

  Liu, J G ^a   Mahoney, K J ^a   Sikkema, P H ^a   Swanton, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomass allocation; Crop competition; Ecological physiology; Integrated weed management; Maize; R:FR; Shade avoidance

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CROP; FITNESS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MAIZE; NUTRIENT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SHADE TOLERANCE; WATER; WEED CONTROL;

AMARANTHUS; AMARANTHUS RETROFLEXUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 62349100540     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2008.00687.x     Document Type: Article

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