Potential physiological frameworks for mid-season field phenotyping of final plant nitrogen uptake, nitrogen use efficiency, and grain yield in maize

Crop Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2728-2742

  Ciampitti, Ignacio A ^a   Zhang, Hao ^b   Friedemann, Pete ^c   Vyn, Tony J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dow AgroSciences   (United States)

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ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84869014977     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: 14350653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2012.05.0305     Document Type: Article

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