Sulfur nutrition of crops in the indo-gangetic plains of South Asia

Sulfur: A Missing Link between Soils, Crops, and Nutrition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 11-24

  Khurana, M P S ^a   Sadana, U S ^a   Bijay Singh, ^a  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Crop plants; Cropping system; Do gangetic plains; Plant tissue; Sulfur concentration; Sulfur uptake; Sulphur nutrition; Ulphur fertilizer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102994077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr50.c2     Document Type: Chapter

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