Efficacy of partial root drying technique for optimizing soybean crop production in semi-arid regions

Irrigation and Drainage

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-88

  Sarai Tabrizi, Mahdi ^a   Parsinejad, Masoud ^b   Babazadeh, Hossein ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Deficit irrigation; Iran; Partial root drying; Soybean; Water productivity

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 84856646493     PISSN: 15310353     EISSN: 15310361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ird.625     Document Type: Article

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