Conservation agriculture for wheat-based cropping systems under gravity irrigation: Increasing resilience through improved soil quality

Plant and Soil

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 467-479

  Verhulst, Nele ^b,c   Carrillo García, Adrian ^a   Moeller, Carina ^a   Trethowan, Richard ^a   Sayre, Ken D ^b   Govaerts, Bram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arid environment; Conservation agriculture; Irrigation; Normalized difference vegetation index; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ARID REGION; CROPPING PRACTICE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FIELDWORK; INFILTRATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; NDVI; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PLOWING; SODIUM; SOIL QUALITY; VERTISOL; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 79951789432     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0620-y     Document Type: Article

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