Water-yield relations and water use efficiency of maize under nitrogen fertigation for semiarid environments: Experiment and synthesis

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 130, Issue , 2015, Pages 175-229

  Gheysari, Mahdi ^a   Loescher, Henry W ^b,c   Sadeghi, Sayed Hossein ^d   Mirlatifi, Seyed Majid ^e   Zareian, Mohammad Javad ^a   Hoogenboom, Gerrit ^d  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Corn; Deficit irrigation; Evapotranspiration; Fertilizer; Maize; Silage maize; Water use efficiency; Yield response factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922783593     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.agron.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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