Comparing the interactive effects of water and nitrogen on durum wheat and barley grown in a Mediterranean environment

Field Crops Research

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 179-190

  Albrizio, Rossella ^a   Todorovic, Mladen ^b   Matic, Tatjana ^b   Stellacci, Anna Maria ^c  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AGRONOMICO MEDITERRANEO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Grain yield; Hordeum vulgare L.; Nitrogen uptake; Nitrogen use efficiency; Triticum durum Desf.; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER SUPPLY; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 71849103617     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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