Responses of rainwater conservation, precipitation-use efficiency and grain yield of summer maize to a furrow-planting and straw-mulching system in northern China

Field Crops Research

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 223-230

  Wang, Tong Chao ^a   Wei, Li ^a   Wang, He Zhou ^b   Ma, Shou Chen ^c   Ma, B L ^d  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Furrow planting; Leaf area index; Precipitation use efficiency (PUEY); Soil water content; Straw mulching; Summer maize

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DOUBLE CROPPING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWING SEASON; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAIZE; MATURATION; MULCHING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; RAINWATER; SOIL WATER; STRAW; SYNCHRONY; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; TILLAGE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER PLANNING; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

CHINA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 80052647751     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2011.06.014     Document Type: Article

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