High-throughput sensing of aerial biomass and above-ground nitrogen uptake in the vegetative stage of well-watered and drought stressed tropical maize hybrids

Crop Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 479-489

  Winterhalter, Loïc ^a   Mistele, Bodo ^a   Jampatong, Sansern ^b   Schmidhalter, Urs ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

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ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79952476380     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: 14350653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2010.07.0397     Document Type: Article

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