Assessing the vertical footprint of reflectance measurements to characterize nitrogen uptake and biomass distribution in maize canopies

Field Crops Research

Volumn 129, Issue , 2012, Pages 14-20

  Winterhalter, Loïc ^a   Mistele, Bodo ^a   Schmidhalter, Urs ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canopy; Corn; Crop growth simulation models; Nitrogen uptake; Phenomics; Phenotyping; Plant architecture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOLIAGE; GROWTH MODELING; LEAF AREA; MAIZE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHENOTYPE; PHYTOMASS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84856567575     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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