Effect of weed density on leaf area index and biological yield of maize

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1939-1942

  Saeed, Muhammad ^a,b   Marwat, Khan Bahadar ^a,b   Gul, Bakhtiar ^a,b   Hussain, Zahid ^a,b  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b University of Swat   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84879115052     PISSN: 05563321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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