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BACKGROUND
Increasing crop yield per unit area by increasing planting density is essential to ensure food security. However, the optimal combination of planting density and nitrogen (N) application for high‐yielding maize and its source–sink characteristics need to be more clearly understood.
RESULTS
A 2‐year field experiment was conducted combining three planting densities (D1: 70 000 plants ha...