Narrowing the agronomic yield gaps of maize by improved soil, cultivar, and agricultural management practices in different climate zones of Northeast China

Earth Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1-18

  Liu, Zhijuan ^a   Yang, Xiaoguang ^a   Lin, Xiaomao ^b   Hubbard, Kenneth G ^c   Lv, Shuo ^a   Wang, Jing ^a,d  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d Ningxia Institute of Meteorological Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Applications; Asia; Climate variability; Crop growth; Geographic location entity; Variability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRONOMY; APPLICATIONS; CULTIVATION; LOCATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

ASIA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CROP GROWTH; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; VARIABILITY;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRONOMY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; MAIZE; SOIL IMPROVEMENT;

CHINA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84964865015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI-D-15-0032.1     Document Type: Article

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