Characteristics of internal porosity of cork container media

HortScience

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1177-1179

  Ordovas J ^a   Carmona, E ^a   Moreno, M T ^a   Ortega, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

ash content; effective porosity; particle density; total porosity

Indexed keywords

QUERCUS; QUERCUS SUBER;

EID: 0030423715     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.31.7.1177     Document Type: Article

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