Seed spillage from grain trailers on road verges during oilseed rape harvest: An experimental survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Bailleul, Diane ^a   Ollier, Sébastien ^a   Huet, Sylvie ^b   Gardarin, Antoine ^a   Lecomte, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UR341 National Agronomical Research Institute (INRA)   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAIN TRAILER; HARVEST; MOTOR VEHICLE; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; RAILWAY; RAPESEED; ROAD DISTANCE; ROAD VERGE; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED LOSS; SEED SPILLAGE; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; TRAVEL; AGRICULTURE; BRASSICA RAPA; FRANCE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

BRASSICA NAPUS;

AGRICULTURE; BRASSICA RAPA; FRANCE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; SEED DISPERSAL; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84857972862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032752     Document Type: Article

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