Green Window Approach for improving nitrogen management by farmers in small-scale wheat fields

Journal of Agricultural Science

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 446-454

  Yue, X L ^a,b   Hu, Y ^a   Zhang, H Z ^b   Schmidhalter, U ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

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EID: 84924912919     PISSN: 00218596     EISSN: 14695146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021859614000203     Document Type: Article

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