Grain corn and soil nitrogen responses to sidedress nitrogen sources and applications

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1014-1022

  Gagnon, Bernard ^a   Ziadi, Noura ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM NITRATE; BEST MATCH; CLAY SOIL; CONCENTRATION OF; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); CORN RESPONSE; FERTILIZER SOURCES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; N FERTILIZATION; N FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN SOURCES; OPTIMUM RATE; RESIDUAL SOIL; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL SURFACES; UPPER LAYER; UREA AMMONIUM NITRATES;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; CLAY; COMPETITION; NITROGEN; SOIL POLLUTION; UREA;

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

EID: 77952641347     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2010.0011     Document Type: Article

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