Biomass productivity and nutrient availability of Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. growing on soils of different sodicity stress

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3440-3447

  Shukla, Shashi Kant ^b   Singh, Kripal ^a   Singh, Bajrang ^a   Gautam, Nitesh Nandini ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Prathista Industries Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

Biomass; Cynodon dactylon; Nutrients availability; Semireclaimed crop field; Uncultivated sodic land

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAINS; BIOMASS PRODUCTIVITY; CROP FIELDS; CROP PRODUCTION; CYNODON DACTYLON; HIGH GROWTH; NA CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENTS AVAILABILITY; PLANT SAMPLES; PLANT TISSUES; REFERENCE SITES; SEMIRECLAIMED CROP FIELD; SITE VARIATION; SODIC SOIL SITES; SODIC WASTELANDS; SODICITY; SOIL SITES; UNCULTIVATED SODIC LAND;

CROPS; CULTIVATION; MANGANESE; NUTRIENTS; PRODUCTIVITY; RECLAMATION; SODIUM; SOILS; TISSUE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BIOMASS;

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALLUVIAL PLAIN; BIOINDICATOR; CROP PRODUCTION; CULTIVATION; LOAMY SAND; MONOCOTYLEDON; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOMASS; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING; SANDY CLAY LOAM; SODIC SOIL;

GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

CYNODON DACTYLON;

EID: 79960343090     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.04.027     Document Type: Article

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