Soil quality as affected by tillage-residue management in a wheat-maize irrigated bed planting system

Plant and Soil

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 453-466

  Verhulst, Nele ^a,b   Kienle, Fabian ^c   Sayre, Ken D ^a   Deckers, Jozef ^b   Raes, Dirk ^b   Limon Ortega, Agustin ^d   Tijerina Chavez, Leonardo ^c   Govaerts, Bram ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Colegio de Postgraduados ^*  (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Conservation agriculture; Crop residue; Permanent raised beds; Yaqui Valley

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE STABILITY; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; ARID REGION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CROP RESIDUE; CROP ROTATION; DATA ACQUISITION; INFILTRATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MAIZE; SODIUM; SOIL QUALITY; STRAW; SUSTAINABILITY; WHEAT;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79951809420     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0618-5     Document Type: Article

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