More recent wheat cultivars extract more water from greater soil profile depths to increase yield in the texas high plains

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 2771-2780

  Thapa, Sushil ^a   Xue, Qingwu ^a   Jessup, Kirk E ^a   Rudd, Jackie C ^a   Liu, Shuyu ^a   Pradhan, Gautam P ^b   Devkota, Ravindra N ^a   Baker, Jason ^a  

^a Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center   (United States)

^b Williston Research Extension Center   (United States)

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EID: 85034067362     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2017.02.0064     Document Type: Article

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