Performance of plug-grown geranium seedlings preconditioned with nitrogen fertilizer or low-temperature storage

HortScience

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 361-363

  Kaczperski, Mark P ^a,b   Armitage, Allan M ^a   Lewis, Pamela M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Box 1192 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Pelargonium xhortorum; postharvest; stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029742416     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.31.3.361     Document Type: Article

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