Dynamic analysis of competition and complementarity for light and N use to understand the yield and the protein content of a durum wheat-winter pea intercrop

Plant and Soil

Volumn 330, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-54

  Bedoussac, Laurent ^a   Justes, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Complementary resource use; Growth dynamics; Intercropping; Land equivalent ratio; Light use; Nitrogen acquisition; Plant competition

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RESPONSE; INTERCROPPING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LEAF AREA INDEX; LEGUME; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; NITROGEN; PROTEIN; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

FRANCE;

PISUM SATIVUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 77950339717     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0303-8     Document Type: Article

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