Effects of number of seedlings per hill on rice biomass partitioning and yield in a saline-sodic soil

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 628-633

  Wang, Ming Ming ^a,b   Liang, Zheng Wei ^a,c   Yang, Fu ^a,c   Ma, Hong Yuan ^a,c   Huang, Li Hua ^a,c   Liu, Miao ^a,b  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Da an Sodic Land Experiment Station   (China)

Author keywords

Allometry; Biomass partitioning; Density; Rice; Saline sodic soil; Sand amelioration

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS PARTITIONING; CHINA; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROP; DESALINATION; GRAIN YIELD; NONHUMAN; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT GROWTH; RICE; SALINITY; SEED WEIGHT; SEEDLING; SOIL;

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 77952857139     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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