Maize evapotranspiration and water-use efficiency in response to row spacing

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 939-944

  Barbieri, P ^a   Echarte, L ^a   della Maggiora, A ^a   Sadras, V O ^b   Echeverria, H ^a   Andrade, F H ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

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EID: 84863820649     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2012.0014     Document Type: Article

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