Plant population and row-spacing effects on maturity group III soybean

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 821-826

  Walker, E R ^a   Mengistu, A ^b   Bellaloui, N ^c   Koger, C H ^d   Roberts, R K ^e   Larson, J A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD EXPERIMENT; GLYCINE MAX; MATURITY GROUPS; NARROW ROW SPACING; OPTIMUM YIELD; PLANT POPULATION; REPRODUCTIVE STAGE; ROW SPACING; SEED YIELD; SEEDING RATE;

AGRICULTURE; DROUGHT; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEED;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

EID: 77952627477     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2009.0219     Document Type: Article

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