Global nitrogen budgets in cereals: A 50-year assessment for maize, rice, and wheat production systems

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Ladha, J K ^a   Tirol Padre, A ^a   Reddy, C K ^a   Cassman, K G ^b   Verma, Sudhir ^c   Powlson, D S ^d   Van Kessel, C ^e   De Richter, Daniel B ^f   Chakraborty, Debashis ^g   Pathak, Himanshu ^g  

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c DR Y S PARMAR UNIVERSITY OF HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY   (India)

^d ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; NITROGEN;

CROP PRODUCTION; ECONOMICS; FOOD GRAIN; HISTORY; HUMAN; MAIZE; ORYZA; TRENDS; WHEAT;

CROP PRODUCTION; EDIBLE GRAIN; FERTILIZERS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NITROGEN; ORYZA; TRITICUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84955115385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19355     Document Type: Article

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