Emerging and established technologies to increase nitrogen use efficiency of cereals

Agronomy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Herrera, Juan M ^a   Rubio, Gerardo ^b   Häner, Lilia Levy ^a   Delgado, Jorge A ^c   Lucho Constantino, Carlos A ^d   Islas Valdez, Samira ^e   Pellet, Didier ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

^b Universidad de Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Nanofertilizers; Nitrogen use efficiency; Recycled fertilizers; Slow N released fertilizers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971635396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy6020025     Document Type: Review

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