Effect of full and limited irrigation amount and frequency on subsurface drip-irrigated maize evapotranspiration, yield, water use efficiency and yield response factors

Irrigation Science

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 271-286

  Irmak, Suat ^a   Djaman, Koffi ^b   Rudnick, Daran R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Centre du riz pour l'Afrique Senegal   (Senegal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); SUBIRRIGATION;

INTERANNUAL VARIATION; IRRIGATION FREQUENCY; IRRIGATION TREATMENTS; LIMITED IRRIGATIONS; MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.); PRODUCTION FUNCTION; SUBSURFACE DRIP IRRIGATION; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

WATER SUPPLY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DRIP IRRIGATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWING SEASON; MAIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84962172918     PISSN: 03427188     EISSN: 14321319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00271-016-0502-z     Document Type: Article

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