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Mäkelä, Pirjo; Muurinen, Susanna; Peltonen-Sainio, Pirjo. |
The ideotype of a crop is a model of a plant community where all necessary and beneficial traits for crop performance in a particular environment are combined. It is important to consider the environment when developing an ideotype since climatic, edaphic and agronomic features of the target region have a major role in determining crop performance. New technologies, high yielding cultivars, irrigation and water management, plant protection materials and more skilful farm management practices have increased yields and yield potentials on cereals in Finland as in many other countries. In this paper we aim to summarize traits which would be useful from the farmers’ perspective. The most important trait is increased early vigour of spring cereals, including... |
Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Crop husbandry. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/16894/1/makela.pdf |
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