What about keeping plants well watered?

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 99, Issue , 2014, Pages 38-42

  Medici, Leonardo O ^a   Reinert, Fernanda ^b   Carvalho, Daniel F ^a   Kozak, Marcin ^c   Azevedo, Ricardo A ^d  

^a FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Deficit irrigation; Field capacity; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BIOMASS; IRRIGATION; RESEARCH WORK; SOIL WATER; VOLUME; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84888018002     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2013.10.019     Document Type: Review

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