Effect of growing degree days on autumn planted sunflower

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 44, 2011, Pages 8840-8846

  Kaleem, Shuaib ^a   Fayyaz ul Hassan, ^b   Ahmad, M ^a   Mahmood, Imran ^b   Wasaya, Allah ^b   Randhawa, M A ^c   Khaliq, Pervaiz ^d  

^a Agriculture Adaptive Research Complex   (Pakistan)

^b PMAS ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^d PAKISTAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Growing degree days (GDD); Sunflower; Yield and yield components

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE OIL;

ACHENE; AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; AGRONOMIC TRAIT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GROWING DEGREE DAY; HYBRID; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PLANT YIELD COMPONENT; PLANTING TIME; SPECIES COMPARISON; SUNFLOWER; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS;

EID: 80051732603     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/ajb11.608     Document Type: Article

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