Impact of tillage on root systems of winter wheat

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1523-1530

  Qin, Ruijun ^a   Stamp, Peter ^a   Richner, Walter ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; SOILS;

COOL REGIONS; ROOT LENGTH DENSITY (RLD); TILLAGE;

AGRONOMY;

TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 9944234559     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2004.1523     Document Type: Article

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