Planting arrangement and density of transplants influence Sweet Spanish onion yields and bulb size

HortScience

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1129-1130

  Stoffella, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allium cepa; plant population; plant spacing

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 0030424444     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.31.7.1129     Document Type: Article

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