Nitrate paradigm does not hold up for sugarcane

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Robinson, Nicole ^a   Brackin, Richard ^a   Vinall, Kerry ^a   Soper, Fiona ^a   Holst, Jirko ^a   Gamage, Harshi ^a   Paungfoo Lonhienne, Chanyarat ^a   Rennenberg, Heinz ^b,c   Lakshmanan, Prakash ^d   Schmidt, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d BSES LIMITED   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; FERTILIZER; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ANDROPOGON; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; CROP PRODUCTION; CULTIVAR; GRAIN; GRASS; GROWING SEASON; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; SHOOT; SOIL FERTILIZATION; SORGHUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUGARCANE; SYNTHESIS; VARIETAS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT ROOT; SEASON; SOIL;

ANDROPOGONEAE; POACEAE; ZEA MAYS;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FERTILIZERS; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PLANT ROOTS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SACCHARUM; SEASONS; SOIL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955739162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019045     Document Type: Article

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