Soil and crop parameters related to corn nitrogen response in eastern Canada

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1478-1490

  Nyiraneza, Judith ^a   N'Dayegamiye, Adrien ^a   Gasser, Marc O ^a   Giroux, Marcel ^a   Grenier, Michèle ^a   Landry, Christine ^a   Guertin, Simon ^a  

^a Research and Development Institute for Agri Environment (IRDA)   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD WATERS; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); CORN HEAT UNITS; CORN PRODUCTION; CORN YIELDS; CROP YIELD; DISSOLVED NITROGEN; ECONOMIC OPTIMUM N RATES; GROWING CONDITIONS; N FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN RATE; NITROGEN RESPONSE; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOIL PROPERTY; TEST STRIPS; TWO PARAMETER; YIELD RESPONSE;

CROPS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROFITABILITY; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79951575198     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2009.0458     Document Type: Article

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