Performance of two winter cover crops and their impacts on soil properties and two subsequent rice crops in Dongting Lake Plain, Hunan, China

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 124, Issue , 2012, Pages 95-101

  Zhu, Bo ^a   Yi, Lixia ^a   Guo, Limei ^a   Chen, Gong ^a   Hu, Yuegao ^a   Tang, Haiming ^b   Xiao, Chunfang ^c   Xiao, Xiaoping ^b   Yang, Guangli ^b   Acharya, Surya N ^d   Zeng, Zhaohai ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences   (China)

^c Agricultural Bureau   (China)

^d LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chinese milkvetch; Double rice; Paddy soil; Ryegrass; Winter cover crop

Indexed keywords

COVER CROPS; DOUBLE RICE; MILKVETCH; PADDY SOILS; RYEGRASS;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); HARVESTING; LAKES; SOILS;

CROPS;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; AMMONIA; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COVER CROP; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DOUBLE CROPPING; DRY MATTER; GRASS; HARVESTING; LEGUME; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PADDY FIELD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; RICE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL PROPERTY; YIELD RESPONSE;

CHINA; DONGTING LAKE; HUNAN;

ASTRAGALUS (ANGIOSPERM); ASTRAGALUS CHINENSIS; ASTRAGALUS SINICUS; LOLIUM; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 84862503374     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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