Durum wheat (Triticum durum L.) quality and yield as affected by tillage-straw management and nitrogen fertilization practice under furrow-irrigated conditions

Field Crops Research

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 166-177

  Grahmann, Kathrin ^a,b   Verhulst, Nele ^a   Peña, Roberto J ^a   Buerkert, Andreas ^b   Vargas Rojas, Luis ^a   Govaerts, Bram ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservation agriculture; Durum wheat; Grain protein; Grain quality; Permanent raised beds; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CROP RESIDUE; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOOD QUALITY; FURROW IRRIGATION; PROTEIN; STRAW; TILLAGE; WHEAT;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SONORA; YAQUI VALLEY;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84903724592     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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