The effect of organic and conventional management on the yield and quality of wheat grown in a long-term field trial

European Journal of Agronomy

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 71-80

  Bilsborrow, Paul ^a   Cooper, Julia ^a   Tétard Jones, Catherine ^a   Średnicka Tober, Dominika ^a   Barański, Marcin ^a   Eyre, Mick ^a   Schmidt, Christoph ^a   Shotton, Peter ^a   Volakakis, Nikolaos ^a,b   Cakmak, Ismail ^c   Ozturk, Levent ^c   Leifert, Carlo ^a   Wilcockson, Steve ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Geokomi plc Sivas   (Greece)

^c SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conventional crop production; Crop protection; Fertility management; Organic farming; Winter wheat

Indexed keywords

CROP PERFORMANCE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); PROTEIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WHEAT;

EID: 84881483186     PISSN: 11610301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2013.06.003     Document Type: Article

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