Physiological approaches to improving harvest index and productivity in sunflower

Helia

Volumn 26, Issue 38, 2003, Pages 81-90

  Nanja Reddy, Y A N R ^a   Uma Shaanker, R U S ^a   Prasad, T G ^a   Udaya Kumar, M U K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

dry matter partitioning; harvest index; sunflower

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012944776     PISSN: 10181806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/hel0338081r     Document Type: Article

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