Identifying yield-optimizing environments for two cowpea breeding lines by manipulating photoperiod and harvest scenario

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 576-581

  Ohler, Tracy A ^a,b   Mitchell, Cary A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled ecological life support systems; Edible yield rate; Shoot harvest index; Vigna unguiculata; Yield efficiency rate

Indexed keywords

VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEGUME; LIGHT; MEDICINAL PLANT; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 93-10; NASA PROGRAM NSCORT; NON-NASA CENTER; PHOTOPERIODICITY;

NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 93-10; NASA PROGRAM NSCORT; NON-NASA CENTER;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, CLOSED; FABACEAE; LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LIGHT; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 0030132960     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.121.3.576     Document Type: Article

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