Agronomic and physiological contributions to the yield improvement of soybean cultivars released from 1950 to 2006 in Northeast China

Field Crops Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 116-123

  Jin, Jian ^a   Liu, Xiaobing ^a   Wang, Guanghua ^a   Mi, Liang ^a   Shen, Zhongbao ^b   Chen, Xueli ^b   Herbert, Stephen J ^c  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Harvest index; Leaf area; Lodging; Pest; Photosynthesis; Yield components; Yield gain

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CORRELATION; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; HARVESTING; LEAF AREA INDEX; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN; SOYBEAN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 70449518438     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2009.10.016     Document Type: Article

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