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Short-duration cassava genotypes for crop diversification in the humid tropics: growth dynamics, biomass, yield and quality.
Journal of the science of food and agriculture - 30 Jan 2010
Suja Girija, John Kuzhivilayil Susan, Sreekumar Janardanan, Srinivas Tavva
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BACKGROUND: Short-duration (6-7 months) cassava provides opportunities to smallholder farmers for effective utilisation of resources such as land, moisture and nutrients as well as diversification of enterprise and income. The variation in biomass production and partitioning, seasonal course of growth indices, yield, quality and nutrient uptake of ten short-duration/early-bulking genotypes of cassava and their...
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