Using a porous-tube system to study potato responses to constant water tension in a rooting matrix

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 399-403

  Cao, Weixing ^a,b   Tibbitts, Theodore W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CO2 assimilation; Morphology; Partitioning; Solanum tuberosum; Tuberization; Water content

Indexed keywords

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0012792586     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.121.3.399     Document Type: Article

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