Improved plant nitrogen nutrition contributes to higher water use efficiency in tomatoes under alternate partial root-zone irrigation

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-182

  Wang, Yaosheng ^a   Liu, Fulai ^a   Andersen, Mathias N ^b   Jensen, Christian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

15N labelling; Abscisic acid; Carbon isotope composition; Deficit irrigation; Lycopersicon esculentum; Nitrogen use efficiency; Stomatal regulation

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; CARBON ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; DEFICIT IRRIGATION; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NITROGEN-USE EFFICIENCY;

ACIDS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EXPERIMENTS; FRUITS; ISOTOPES; MILITARY ENGINEERING; NITROGEN; NUTRITION; WATER SUPPLY;

IRRIGATION;

BIOMASS; CARBON ISOTOPE; FRUIT; IRRIGATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHIZOSPHERE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 77649150189     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP09181     Document Type: Article

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