Characterization of corn nitrogen status with a greenness index under different availability of sulfur

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 315-322

  Pagani, Agustín ^a   Echeverría, Hernán E ^a   Andrade, Fernando H ^a   Sainz Rozas, Hernán R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; NITROGEN; SULFUR;

ARGENTINA; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES; DRY MATTERS; GRAIN YIELDS; LEAF GREENNESS; NEW INDICES; PLANT SAMPLES; REGRESSION LINES;

CROPS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 63049107245     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2008.0136     Document Type: Article

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