Evolutionary Agroecology: The potential for cooperative, high density, weed-suppressing cereals

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 473-479

  Weiner, Jacob ^a   Andersen, Sven B ^a   Wille, Wibke K M ^a   Griepentrog, Hans W ^a   Olsen, Jannie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Crop weed competition; Group selection; Ideotype; Shade avoidance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951607185     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00144.x     Document Type: Article

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