Effect of plant density and cultivars on growth, yield and yield components of faba bean (Vicia faba L.)

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 50, 2010, Pages 8643-8647

  Dahmardeh, Mehdi ^a   Ramroodi, Mahmood ^a   Valizadeh, Jafar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZABOL   (Iran)

^b Department of Agronomy   (Iran)

Author keywords

Economical and biological yield; Growth characters; Hundred (100) seeds weight; Number of pods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTIVAR; NONHUMAN; NUMBER OF POD PER PLANT; NUMBER OF SEED PER POD; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT SEED; PLANT YIELD; POD; POD HEIGHT; POD NUMBER; SEED WEIGHT; VICIA FABA;

VICIA FABA;

EID: 78650611756     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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