Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants: An Overview

Nutrient Use Efficiency: From Basics to Advance

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1-14

  Baligar, V C ^a   Fageria, N K ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b EMBRAPA ARROZ E FEIJÃO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress agronomy; Fertilizers; Management; Nutrient use efficiency; Physiology; Soils

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRONOMY; CROPS; CULTIVATION; EFFICIENCY; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ABIOTIC STRESS; AGRO-ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; MODERN AGRICULTURES; NUTRIENT-USE EFFICIENCIES; SOIL PLANT SYSTEMS; UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY;

NUTRIENTS;

EID: 84940199536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2169-2_1     Document Type: Chapter

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