Critical carbon inputs to maintain soil organic carbon stocks under long-term finger-millet (Eleusine coracana [L.] Gaertn.) cropping on Alfisols in semiarid tropical India

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Volumn 175, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 681-688

  Srinivasarao, Cherukumalli ^a   Venkateswarlu, Bandi ^a   Kumar Singh, Anil ^b   Pandu Ranga Vittal, Kanuparthy ^c   Kundu, Sumanta ^a   Ravindra Chary, Gajjala ^a   Narayanaiyer Gajanan, Ganjigunte ^d   Kogganur Ramachandrappa, Basavapura ^d  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR DRYLAND AGRICULTURE   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c ICAR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ABIOTIC STRESS MANAGEMENT   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon inputs; Carbon sequestration; Fingermillet; Semiarid tropics; Sustainable yield index

Indexed keywords

ELEUSINE CORACANA;

EID: 84865373598     PISSN: 14368730     EISSN: 15222624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jpln.201000429     Document Type: Article

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