Critical Compositional Nutrient Indexes for Sweet Corn at Early Growth Stage
Lotfi Khiaria,
Léon-Étienne Parent*,a and
Nicolas Tremblayb
a Dep. of Soil Sci. and Agri-Food Eng., Laval Univ., Paul-Comtois Building, Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada G1K 7P4
b Hortic. Res. and Dev. Cent., 430 Gouin Blvd., St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada J3B 3E6

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Fig. 1. Relationship between ear yield and cumulative variance ratio function in S5.
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Fig. 2. Relationship between nutrient imbalance index Compositional Nutrient Diagnosis (CND) r2 and ear yield in S5.
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Fig. 3. Comparison between concentration, Diagnosis and Recommendation Integrated System (DRIS) and Compositional Nutrient Diagnosis (CND) relationships with ear yield for tissue N in the validation database.
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Fig. 4. Relationship between the squared value of Compositional Nutrient Diagnosis (CND) N index and ear yield in S5.
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Fig. 5. Relationship between Compositional Nutrient Diagnosis (CND) r2 and Diagnosis and Recommendation Integrated System (DRIS) nutrient imbalance indexes (NII).
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