Faba bean grain yield, N 2 fixation, and weed infestation in a long-term tillage experiment under rainfed Mediterranean conditions

Plant and Soil

Volumn 360, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 215-227

  Giambalvo, Dario ^a   Ruisi, Paolo ^a   Saia, Sergio ^a   Di Miceli, Giuseppe ^a   Frenda, Alfonso Salvatore ^a   Amato, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Broomrapes; No tillage; Vicia faba; Weeds

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRONOMY; BIOMASS; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HERB; LEGUME; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLOWING; RAINFALL; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; TILLAGE; VERTISOL; WEED CONTROL;

OROBANCHACEAE; VICIA FABA;

EID: 84867745576     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1224-5     Document Type: Article

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