Maize grain yield responses to plant height variability resulting from crop rotation and tillage system in a long-term experiment

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 227-240

  Boomsma, Christopher R ^a   Santini, Judith B ^b   West, Terry D ^b   Brewer, Jason C ^c   McIntyre, Lauren M ^d   Vyn, Tony J ^b  

^a Dow AgroSciences   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous maize rotation; Maize; Maize soybean rotation; Moldboard plow; No till; Plant height variability

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS MAIZE ROTATION; MAIZE; MOLDBOARD PLOWS; NO-TILL; PLANT HEIGHT;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRONOMY; CROPS; FORESTRY; GRAIN GROWTH; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROTATION; STATISTICS;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; EMERGENCE; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MAIZE; MORPHOMETRY; PLOWING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN; ZERO TILLAGE;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 76449121594     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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