Cropping calendar options for rice-wheat production systems at high-altitudes

Field Crops Research

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 158-167

  Shrestha, Suchit ^a   Asch, Folkard ^a   Dingkuhn, Michael ^b   Becker, Mathias ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cold sterility; Nepal; Oryza sativa; Photo thermal constants; RIDEV

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDE; CROPPING PRACTICE; CULTIVAR; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FLOWERING; GENOTYPE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHENOLOGY; RICE; SOIL NITROGEN; VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION; WHEAT;

NEPAL;

ORYZA SATIVA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79151474045     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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