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Bionomics for Woody and Herbaceous Perennial Plant Production

Eigenram, K. International Plant Propagators' Society, combined proceedings 2006, 56:208-212. 2007.

Until recently chemistry was seen as the best way to understand and work with crop production, turning it into an industrial process: seeds and chemicals are the inputs and the crop is the end product. But what happens in the middle is biology — and bionomics is about looking at soil chemistry from a biological standpoint.


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Author(s): K. Eigenram

Section: Soil Management and Growing Media