Wheat sown with narrow spacing results in higher yield and water use efficiency under deficit supplemental irrigation at the vegetative and reproductive stage

Agronomy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Hussain, Mubshar ^a   Farooq, Shahid ^a,b   Jabran, Khawar ^c   Ijaz, Muhammad ^d   Sattar, Abdul ^d   Hassan, Waseem ^d  

^a BAHAUDDIN ZAKARIYA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Department of Plant Protection   (Turkey)

^c ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d BZU Bahaddar Sub Campus   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Deficit supplemental irrigation; Net income; Row spacing; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971474072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy6020022     Document Type: Article

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