A new method for assessing plant lodging and the impact of management options on lodging in canola crop production

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wu, Wei ^a,b   Ma, Bao Luo ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CROP PRODUCTION; CULTIVAR; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; RAPESEED; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM;

BRASSICA NAPUS; CROP PRODUCTION; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS;

EID: 84984688891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep31890     Document Type: Article

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