Can less yield more? Is reducing nutrient input into the environment compatible with maintaining crop production?

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 597-605

  Good, Allen G ^a   Shrawat, Ashok K ^b   Muench, Douglas G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b AgriGenomics   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; NITROGEN;

AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROP; ENVIRONMENT; EVALUATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; REVIEW; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TRANSGENES;

EID: 9444255260     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2004.10.008     Document Type: Review

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