Late-season nitrogen increases improver common and durum wheat quality

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 680-690

  Blandino, Massimo ^a   Vaccino, Patrizia ^b   Reyneri, Amedeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 84923535703     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj14.0405     Document Type: Article

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