Effective use of water by wheat varieties with different root system sizes in rain-fed experiments in Central Europe

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 104, Issue , 2012, Pages 203-209

  Středa, Tomáš ^a   Dostál, Vítězslav ^a   Horáková, Vladimíra ^b   Chloupek, Oldřich ^a  

^a MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^b National Variety Office   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Drought; Effective use of water; Grain quality; Grain yield; Root system size; Varieties; Wheat

Indexed keywords

GRAIN QUALITY; GRAIN YIELD; ROOT SYSTEM; VARIETIES; WHEAT;

DROUGHT; SOILS;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

CROP YIELD; DROUGHT STRESS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; STARCH; SUBSOIL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WHEAT;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84855860067     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2011.12.018     Document Type: Article

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