Fertilizer and planting strategies to increase biomass and improve root morphology in the natural rubber producer Taraxacum brevicorniculatum

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 289-293

  Munt, Oliver ^a   Arias, Marina ^b   Hernandez, Mónica ^b   Ritter, Enrique ^b   Schulze Gronover, Christian ^c   Prüfer, Dirk ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass yield; Fertilizer; Harvesting; Natural rubber; Root morphology; Taraxacum

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS YIELD; COMMERCIAL SOURCES; FIELD TRIAL; HIGH QUALITY; N:P RATIO; PLANT BIOMASS; PRELIMINARY DATA; ROOT BIOMASS; ROOT MORPHOLOGY; TARAXACUM; WILD TYPES;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; FERTILIZERS; GREENHOUSES; HARVESTING; MAGNESIUM; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; RUBBER;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; HARVESTING; MORPHOLOGY; ROOT SYSTEM; RUBBER; SPACING;

TARAXACUM; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE;

EID: 82055172539     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2011.10.014     Document Type: Article

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