Plant spacing and variety affect pumpkin yield and fruit size, but supplemental nitrogen does not

HortScience

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1037-1039

  Reiners, Stephen ^a   Riggs, Dale I M ^b  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^b Mathematics Specialist Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cucurbita pepo; Nutrition; Plant population

Indexed keywords

CUCURBITA; CUCURBITA PEPO; PEPO;

EID: 0030882196     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.32.6.1037     Document Type: Article

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